From Colonial Cuba to Madrid

From Colonial Cuba to Madrid

Litigating Collective Freedom and Native Rights in the Spanish Empire, 1780-1814

Diaz, Maria Elena

Cambridge University Press

11/2024

360

Dura

9781009494199

15 a 20 dias

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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 council's 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.