Wage-earning slaves : coartación in nineteenth-century Cuba / Claudia Varella & Manuel Barcia.

By:

Varella, Claudia [author.]

Contributor(s):

Barcia Paz, Manuel, 1972- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2020]Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 217 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781683401926
1683401921
9781683402329
1683402324

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wage-earning slavesDDC classification:

306.3/62097291 23

LOC classification:

HT1078 .V37 2020

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Contents:

Freeing Oneself: The Meaning and Practice of Coartación -- An Institution for the Advancement of Slaves into Freedmen?: Understanding Cuban Laws about Coartación -- The Path to Abolition: Síndicos, Coartados and the Presence of the State -- "Roaming Coartados": Strengthening the Rural Slave Sector -- The Hidden Face of Urban Slavery: A Look at the Coartados Rental Market -- Slaves and Labor Pools: The Combination of Slavery and Work for Hire -- The Promised Freedom: Patronage and the Final Years of Coartación

Summary: "This volume is the first systematic study of coartación, a process by which slaves worked toward purchasing their freedom in installments. Focusing on Cuba, this book reveals that instead of providing a "path to manumission," the process was often rife with obstacles that blocked slaves from achieving liberty"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This volume is the first systematic study of coartación, a process by which slaves worked toward purchasing their freedom in installments. Focusing on Cuba, this book reveals that instead of providing a "path to manumission," the process was often rife with obstacles that blocked slaves from achieving liberty"-- Provided by publisher.

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