Wage-earning slaves : coartación in nineteenth-century Cuba /
Varella, Claudia,
Wage-earning slaves : coartación in nineteenth-century Cuba / Claudia Varella and Manuel Barcia. - Gainesville : University of Florida Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xvi, 217 pages) : illustrations, map
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
"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"--
9781683401926 9781683402329
2020023365
Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Cuba.
Electronic Books.
HT1078 / .W344 2020
Wage-earning slaves : coartación in nineteenth-century Cuba / Claudia Varella and Manuel Barcia. - Gainesville : University of Florida Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xvi, 217 pages) : illustrations, map
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
"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"--
9781683401926 9781683402329
2020023365
Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Cuba.
Electronic Books.
HT1078 / .W344 2020