María Elena Díaz

From Colonial Cuba to Madrid

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book examines freedom and native based rights through a unique collective suit filed by hundreds of Afro descendant litigants in colonial Cuba. Crossing various disciplines, it will interest students and scholars of the African diaspora, Afro-Latin America, slavery, the Spanish empire, legal studies, and the age of revolutions"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9781009494199
• ISBN-10: 1009494198
• Artikelnr.: 70471270

Autorenporträt

María Elena Díaz is Associate Professor of Latin American History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre, 1670-1780 (2002), which was selected as an ACLS Humanities ebook.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Imperial reform, privatization, and enslavement
2. An unorthodox pueblo and its apoderados
3. Making the case for collective freedom
4. Native bonds, native rights
5. The council's ruling and the politics of litigation
6. A 'pernicious' communication
7. Violence, marronage, and litigation
8. The final outcome of the case
9. The nineteenth-century afterlife of the freedom edict of 1800
Conclusion
References
Index.