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Freedom's Captives - Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific (Paperback)
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Freedom's Captives - Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific (Paperback)
Series: Afro-Latin America
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Freedom's Captives is a compelling exploration of the gradual
abolition of slavery in the majority-black Pacific coast of
Colombia, the largest area in the Americas inhabited primarily by
people of African descent. From the autonomous rainforests and gold
mines of the Colombian Black Pacific, Yesenia Barragan rethinks the
nineteenth-century project of emancipation by arguing that the
liberal freedom generated through gradual emancipation constituted
a modern mode of racial governance that birthed new forms of social
domination, while temporarily instituting de facto slavery.
Although gradual emancipation was ostensibly designed to destroy
slavery, she argues that slaveholders in Colombia came to have an
even greater stake in it. Using narrative and storytelling to map
the worlds of Free Womb children, enslaved women miners, free black
boatmen, and white abolitionists in the Andean highlands, Freedom's
Captives insightfully reveals how the Atlantic World processes of
gradual emancipation and post-slavery rule unfolded in Colombia.
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