Patchwork Freedoms - Chira, Adriana

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Biographie:
Adriana Chira is Assistant Professor of History at Emory University. Her research focuses on practices of litigation among socially marginalized groups ? enslaved people, free Africans and Afro-descendants, and peasantries ? in the Iberian Atlantic during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Sommaire:
Introduction; 1. Unenclosed people, unenclosed lands: Santiago de Cuba to 1800; 2. Foreign implants: The Saint-Domingue refugees and the limits of plantation development, 1791?1808; 3. Keeping people put: Enslaved families, policing, and the re-emergence of coffee planting, 1810s?1830s; 4. Manumission's legalities: From need-based prerogatives to merit-based entitlements; 5. 'A freedom with further bonds': Free people of African descent, property ownership, and color status; 6. 'Para levantar los negros y proclamar la Rep?blica': The beginnings of the Cuban wars of independence in Santiago de Cuba; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.