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- Title
Free Black Women, Slavery, and the Politics of Place in Chocó, New Granada.
- Authors
Barragán, Yesenia
- Abstract
This article is a historical study that examines the strategies and arguments employed by two mujeres libres [free black women] to protect or free their enslaved kin in Pacific coastal province of Chocó, the region with the highest concentration of slaves in the young republic of New Granada, in the 1830s and 1840s. It examines how these two free black women in Chocó mobilized a “politics of place," referring to the ways in which subalterns harnessed the power of ‘ordinary' places to leverage their everyday struggles.
- Subjects
FREE Black people; CORDOVA, Petrona; SERNA, Maria Antonia; BLACK women; BLACK Colombians; SLAVERY prevention; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Revista de Estudios Colombianos, 2016, Issue 47, p57
- ISSN
0121-2117
- Publication type
Article