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Landscapes of Freedom : Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia /
After emancipation in 1851, the African descendants living in the extra-humid rainforests of the Pacific coast of Colombia attained levels of autonomy hardly equaled anywhere else in the Americas. This autonomy rested on their access to a diverse environment--including small strips of fertile soils,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Series: | Latin American landscapes.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Voyages into the rainforest : an introduction in three acts
- part I. An extractive economy
- 1. Slave mining and emancipation
- 2. Freedom and the persistence of extraction
- 3. Traders in natural commodities
- 4. The politics of natural resource access
- part II. Racialized landscapes
- 5. Blackness, forests, and nation
- 6. Urban dreams and nightmares
- Conclusion : a people and an environment with history.