Description: From Colonial Cuba to Madrid examines the largest and most complex freedom suit litigated in the highest court of the Spanish empire at the end of the eighteenth century. Filed by hundreds of re-enslaved Afro descendant people who had lived in quasi-freedom in eastern Cuba for more than a century, this action drew on local customary practices and broader cultural, political, and legal discourses rooted in the Spanish Atlantic world to put forward novel claims to collective freedom and native based rights at a time when questions of slavery, freedom, and citizenship were igniting in many parts of the Atlantic world. Intersecting law, society studies, and the history of slavery, María Elena Díaz offers a carefully researched study of one of the few communities of Afro descendants that managed to secure freedom and political and legal recognition from the Spanish crown during the colonial period.
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EAN: 9781009494229
UPC: 9781009494229
ISBN: 9781009494229
MPN: N/A
Format: Paperback, 403 pages
Author: Diaz, Maria Elena (University of California, Santa
Book Title: From Colonial Cuba to Madrid: Litigating Collectiv
Item Height: 2 cm
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Item Weight: 0.53 kg
Item Width: 15.2 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
