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Patchwork Freedoms - Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations (Paperback, New Ed)
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Patchwork Freedoms - Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Afro-Latin America
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In nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba, the island of Cuba's
radical cradle, Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom and devised
their own formative path to emancipation. Drawing on understudied
archives, this pathbreaking work unearths a new history of Black
rural geography and popular legalism, and offers a new framework
for thinking about nineteenth-century Black freedom. Santiago de
Cuba's Afro-descendant peasantries did not rely on
liberal-abolitionist ideologies as a primary reference point in
their struggle for rights. Instead, they negotiated their freedom
and land piecemeal, through colonial legal frameworks that allowed
for local custom and manumission. While gradually wearing down the
institution of slavery through litigation and self-purchase, they
reimagined colonial racial systems before Cuba's intellectuals had
their say. Long before residents of Cuba protested for national
independence and island-wide emancipation in 1868, it was
Santiago's Afro-descendant peasants who, gradually and invisibly,
laid the groundwork for emancipation.
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