Wage-Earning Slaves : Coartación in Nineteenth-Century Cuba /
"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 sl...
Autores principales: | , |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University of Florida Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "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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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (236 pages): illustrations, map |
ISBN: | 9781683401926 |