Patchwork freedoms : law, slavery, and race beyond Cuba's plantations / Adriana Chira, Emory University.

Cambridge, United Kingom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

©2022

1 online resource (xxvii, 305 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Afro-Latin America.

"Throughout the nineteenth century, aided by railroads and steam technologies, industrial plantations expanded their footprint into ever new territories across Latin America. The timing was unique: it occurred right as enslavement, the foundation of these enterprises, was being subjected to unprecedented challenges-- from proliferating slave insurgencies to vocal liberal-abolitionist mobilization. But along industrial plantations' margins, vast and socially vibrant free rural communities of African descent made homes for themselves against many odds. Unearthing their worlds sheds light on a distinct history of emancipation that did not fully align with liberalism's trajectory"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 24, 2024).

Print version: Chira, Adriana, 1983- Patchwork freedoms Cambridge, United Kingom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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