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Wage-earning slaves : coartación in nineteenth-century Cuba / Claudia Varella and Manuel Barcia.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 217 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781683401926
  • 9781683402329
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HT1078 .W344 2020
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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
Subject: "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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction HT1078 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1159639891

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"--

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