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Liberata was a real-life character. Slave, then free, mother as a slave and mother already released, finally defunct, all in the first half of the 19th century. In this book, Liberata is almost fiction, or rather, an author of fiction. She proposes the enigma of her life, as recorded in the centenary documents kept by the National Archives in Rio de Janeiro, and she guides the investigator through the labyrinths of interpretation and evidence that will allow to decipher the enigma itself.

Slavery --- Law and legislation --- History. --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- HISTORY --- Enslaved persons

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La libertad, antónimo de la esclavitud, fue el objectivo esencial de vida de aquellos seres humanos sometidos a tan aberrante práctica. Distintas fueron las formas que, tanto ellos y quienes por motivos diversos los alentaron, usaron para obtener su propósito, que a fin de cuentas era ineludible. Esta recopilación es muestra de algunas de las vías por las que los esclavos lograron sus fines. El itinerario seguido para obtener la libertad habría de ser difícil, los obstáculos, muchas veces vistos como insalvables, sin embargo fueron vencidos con acciones de participación directa que involucraba la violencia, hasta la sutil intervención que con ingenio y astucia desplegaron quienes carentes de todo pusieron en este propósito toda su imaginación e ingenio. Acciones comunes que se repiten sin límites fronterizos con fines similares, pero que a pesar de ello adquieren rasgos propios de su entorno, entre otros muchos: las formas de dominio y la cohabitación étnica. En esta breve muestra se recogen experiencias iberoamericanas acaecidas en periodos diferentes que cubren desde los tempranos destellos de rebelión del siglo XVI hasta las luchas sistematizadas del siglo XVIII. Juan Manuel de la Serna H., investigador de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, asignado al Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe tiene como líneas de investigación la historia social regional de México y el Caribe. Ha trabajado sobre la esclavitud de los africanos y sus descendientes desde varias perspectivas.

Slavery --- Blacks --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Communities - Social Classes --- History --- Social conditions --- Negroes --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Ethnology --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Black persons --- Black people --- africanos --- esclavitud --- libertad --- luchas --- afrodescendientes --- Enslaved persons

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This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives.

Women slaves --- Slavery --- History. --- Public opinion. --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Slave women --- Enslaved women --- proslavery --- writers --- antislavery --- writings --- female --- flogging --- apprentices --- african --- jamaican --- mother --- Enslaved persons

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A classic text long out of print, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in Martinique during the period immediately preceding slave emancipation in 1848. Interpreting these events against the broader background of the world-economy, Dale W. Tomich analyzes the importance of topics such as British hegemony in the nineteenth century, related developments of the French economy, and competition from European beet sugar producers. He shows how slaves' adaptation-and resistance-to changing working conditions transformed the plantation labor regime and the very character of slavery itself. Based on archival sources in France and Martinique, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar offers a vivid reconstruction of the complex and contradictory interrelations among the world market, the material processes of sugar production, and the social relations of slavery. In this second edition, Tomich includes a new introduction in which he offers an explicit discussion of the methodological and theoretical issues entailed in developing and extending the world-systems perspective and clarifies the importance of the approach for the study of particular histories.

Slavery --- Slave labor --- Sugarcane industry --- Sugar trade --- Sugar bounties --- Sugar industry --- Sweetener industry --- Forced labor --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- History --- Martinique --- Economic conditions. --- Enslaved persons

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This important book assesses the size and nature of Caribbean slavery's economic impact on British society. The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy, a grouping of West India merchants and planters, became active before the emancipation of chattel slavery in the British West Indies in 1834. Many acquired nationally significant fortunes, and their investments percolated into the Scottish economy and wider society. At its core, the book traces the development of merchant capital and poses several interrelated questions during an era of rapid transformation, namely, what impact the private investments of West India merchants and colonial adventurers had on metropolitan society and the economy, as well as the wider effects of such commerce on industrial and agricultural development. The book also examines the fortunes of temporary Scottish economic migrants who traveled to some of the wealthiest of the Caribbean islands, presenting the first large-scale survey of repatriated slavery fortunes via case studies of Scots in Jamaica, Grenada, and Trinidad before emancipation in 1834. It, therefore, takes a new approach to illuminate the world of individuals who acquired West Indian fortunes and ultimately explores, in an Atlantic frame, the interconnections between the colonies and metropole in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Slave trade. --- Slavery --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Enslaved persons --- History --- 1700-1899 --- Glasgow (Scotland) --- Caribbean Area. --- Scotland --- Economic conditions --- Glasgow --- Caribbean Free Trade Association countries --- Caribbean Region --- Caribbean Sea Region --- West Indies Region --- Glaschu (Scotland) --- Glasgow (Strathclyde) --- Glasgo (Scotland)