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    • An Institution for the Advancement of Slaves into Freedmen? Understanding Cuban Laws about Coartacion 

      Varella, Claudia ; Barcia, Manuel (University Press of Florida, 2020)
      María del Carmen was a twenty-five-year-old African woman when, in 1813, she was recorded as being ethnically Carabalí and a “coartada,” having a past that included four prior owners.¹ That same year María del Carmen was ...

    • Freeing Oneself The Meaning and Practice of Coartacion 

      Varella, Claudia ; Barcia, Manuel (2020)
      In 1789 the Spanish crown eliminated the old monopolistic practice of the Asiento, which had kept the slave trade to Cuba in the hands of a selected number of individuals and firms since the sixteenth century, allowing for ...

    • "Roaming Coartados" Strengthening the Rural Slave Sector 

      Varella, Claudia ; Barcia, Manuel (University Press of Florida, 2020)
      Sugar cane plantations began to incorporate coartados in the mid-nineteenth century. This chapter examines the shift of labor from city to country. While many coartados did everything in their power to remain in Havana, ...

    • Slaves and Labor Pools The Combination of Slavery and Work for Hire 

      Varella, Claudia ; Barcia, Manuel (University Press of Florida, 2020)
      When slaves were seized, complications often arose between those claiming ownership over them. Dire as their situation was, things took a turn for the worse when coartados entered the depósitos, where their special status ...

    • The Hidden Face of Urban Slavery A Look at the Coartados Rental Market 

      Varella, Claudia ; Barcia, Manuel (University Press of Florida, 2020)
      The Hidden Face of Urban Slavery A Look at the Coartados Rental Market In 1845, the Cuban Junta de Fomento, seeing an escalating crisis develop in front of their own eyes, complained that “infinite [numbers],” of coartados ...

    • The Path to Abolition Sindicos, Coartados, and the Presence of the State 

      Varella, Claudia ; Barcia, Manuel (University Press of Florida, 2020)
      In 1840, the Audiencia Pretorial of Havana proposed eight new regulations in order to give the state’s attorneys more control over the síndicos appointed by the city council.¹ The Audiencia proposed that when a slave’s ...

    • The Promised Freedom Patronage and the Final Years of Coartacion 

      Varella, Claudia ; Barcia, Manuel (University Press of Florida, 2020)
      An essential aspect of the process of abolishing slavery in Cuba was the need for the state to impose its will on the private master-slave sphere. The mechanism of self-purchase from slavery through coartaciones and municipal ...

    • Wage-Earning Slaves COARTACION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CUBA Conclusion 

      Varella, Claudia ; Barcia, Manuel (Wage-EAarning Slaves, 2020)
      Wage-Earning Slaves is the first systematic study of coartación, a process by which slaves worked toward purchasing their freedom in installments, long recognized as a distinctive feature of certain areas under Spanish ...

    • Wage-Earning Slaves COARTACION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CUBA Introduction 

      Varella, Claudia ; Barcia, Manuel (University Press of Florida, 2020)
      In 1845, Mark Twain was ten years old, and the society he knew in Missouri was slave-based, as the epigraph at the beginning of this book shows. Much the same was true of Cuba, a European colony at that time—Spain’s most ...