Varella, Claudia, <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781683401926 9781683402329 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020023365 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Cuba.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HT1078  / .W344 2020