TY  - BOOK
AU  - Varella,Claudia
AU  - Barcia Paz,Manuel
TI  - Wage-earning slaves: coartación in nineteenth-century Cuba 
SN  - 9781683401926
AV  - HT1078 .W344 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University of Florida Press
KW  - Enslaved persons
KW  - Emancipation
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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