• 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 ...