Add to ORKGChristine Hünefeldt documents in impressive, moving detail the striving and ingenuity, the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sought liberation in nineteenth-century urban Peru. Drawing on judicial, ecclesiastical, and notarial records - including the testimony of the slaves themselves - she uncovers the various strategies slaves invented to gain their freedom.Hünefeldt pays particular attention to marriage relations and family life. Slaves used their family solidarity as a strategy, while slaveowners used the conflicts within families to prevent manumission. The author's focus on gender relations between slaveowners and slaves, as well as between slaves, is particularly original. Her eye for ethnographic detail and her perc...
In the early nineteenth century, both Britain and the United States had passed laws prohibiting furt...
More than 40,000 enslaved Africans were brought to Amazonia between the late seventeenth century and...
This paper analyzes the use of the courts by African population in Lima in- seventeenth century, as ...
Wage-Earning Slaves is the first systematic study of coartación, a process by which slaves worked to...
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By combining the analysis of 1,298 letters of manumission registered in Lima between 1840 and 1854,...
This dissertation examines the diverse ways by which slaves in Ouro Preto, the capital of Minas Gera...
This dissertation focuses on the relationship between clothing and status in a slaveholding society,...
“Freedom’s Edge” explores how enslaved people in the South Atlantic world engaged with the law to ac...
Abstract. Many of the black slaves brought to the Americas by European colo-nizers developed strateg...
Most historians of slavery in the Americas treat masters of color who owned their own kin as an oddi...
For a slave, acquiring the legal condition for freedom was one of the irst steps needed to reach soc...
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara\u27s book, Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlan...
Este estudo aborda o tema das Cartas de Liberdade com o objetivo de compreender as práticas de manum...
This paper examines the issue of slavery in Brazil throughout the nineteenth century, highlighting t...
In the early nineteenth century, both Britain and the United States had passed laws prohibiting furt...
More than 40,000 enslaved Africans were brought to Amazonia between the late seventeenth century and...
This paper analyzes the use of the courts by African population in Lima in- seventeenth century, as ...
Wage-Earning Slaves is the first systematic study of coartación, a process by which slaves worked to...
Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required:0520082354052008292
By combining the analysis of 1,298 letters of manumission registered in Lima between 1840 and 1854,...
This dissertation examines the diverse ways by which slaves in Ouro Preto, the capital of Minas Gera...
This dissertation focuses on the relationship between clothing and status in a slaveholding society,...
“Freedom’s Edge” explores how enslaved people in the South Atlantic world engaged with the law to ac...
Abstract. Many of the black slaves brought to the Americas by European colo-nizers developed strateg...
Most historians of slavery in the Americas treat masters of color who owned their own kin as an oddi...
For a slave, acquiring the legal condition for freedom was one of the irst steps needed to reach soc...
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara\u27s book, Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlan...
Este estudo aborda o tema das Cartas de Liberdade com o objetivo de compreender as práticas de manum...
This paper examines the issue of slavery in Brazil throughout the nineteenth century, highlighting t...
In the early nineteenth century, both Britain and the United States had passed laws prohibiting furt...
More than 40,000 enslaved Africans were brought to Amazonia between the late seventeenth century and...
This paper analyzes the use of the courts by African population in Lima in- seventeenth century, as ...