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"Roaming Coartados" Strengthening the Rural Slave Sector
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Wage-Earning Slaves COARTACION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CUBA Conclusion
(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 ...
