From Colonial Cuba to Madrid: Litigating Collective Freedom and Native Rights in

Description: From Colonial Cuba to Madrid by María Elena Díaz 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. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher 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. Author Biography 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. Table of Contents 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 councils 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. Promotional Examines freedom rights through a unique collective suit filed by hundreds of re-enslaved Afro descendant litigants in colonial Cuba. Details ISBN1009494198 Author María Elena Díaz Publisher Cambridge University Press Series Afro-Latin America Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781009494199 Format Hardcover Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Litigating Collective Freedom and Native Rights in the Spanish Empire, 1780–1814 Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9781009494212 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises Audience General ISBN-10 1009494198 Publication Date 2024-11-21 UK Release Date 2024-11-21 Pages 360 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168581016;

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