Patchwork freedoms : law, slavery, and race beyond Cuba's plantations /

Patchwork freedoms : law, slavery, and race beyond Cuba's plantations /

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Author / Creator:	Chira, Adriana, 1983- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xxvii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Afro-Latin America Afro-Latin America.
Subject:	Plantations -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century. Slavery -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century. Slaves -- Emancipation -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century. Africans -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century. Africans. Plantations. Race relations. Slavery. Slaves -- Emancipation. Cuba -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century. Cuba. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12709745

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ISBN:	9781108499545 1108499546 9781108730808 1108730809 9781108583596 9781108606677
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Throughout the nineteenth century, aided by railroads and steam technologies, industrial plantations expanded their footprint into ever new territories across Latin America. The timing was unique: it occurred right as enslavement, the foundation of these enterprises, was being subjected to unprecedented challenges-- from proliferating slave insurgencies to vocal liberal-abolitionist mobilization. But along industrial plantations' margins, vast and socially vibrant free rural communities of African descent made homes for themselves against many odds. Unearthing their worlds sheds light on a distinct history of emancipation that did not fully align with liberalism's trajectory"--
Other form:	Online version: Chira, Adriana, 1983- Patchwork freedoms 1. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781108583596

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