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Unraveling Abolition: Legal Culture and Slave Emancipation in Colombia(Studies in Legal History)


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Unraveling Abolition tells the fascinating story of slaves, former slaves, magistrates and legal workers who fought for emancipation, without armed struggle, from 1781 to 1830. By centering the Colombian judicial forum as a crucible of antislavery, Edgardo Pérez Morales reveals how the meanings of slavery, freedom and political belonging were publicly contested. In the absence of freedom of the press or association, the politics of abolition were first formed during litigation. Through the life stories of enslaved litigants and defendants, Pérez Morales illuminates the rise of antislavery culture, and how this tradition of legal tinkering and struggle shaped claims to equal citizenship during the anti-Spanish revolutions of the early 1800s. By questioning foundational constitutions and laws, this book uncovers how legal activists were radically committed to the idea that independence from Spain would be incomplete without emancipation for all slaves. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Table of Contents:
List of figures; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Prologue: antislavery, abolition, and the judicial forum; 1. Raynal in the new kingdom?; 2. Landscapes of slavery, rumors of freedom; 3. Popayán: prudent legislation; 4. Cartagena: equality and natural law; 5. Antioquia: free womb, captive slaves; 6. An exegesis of liberty; Epilogue: the slaves before the law; Notes; Index.

About the Author :
Edgardo Pérez Morales is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California. He specializes in Colombia and its connections with the Caribbean and the Atlantic World. He is the author of No Limits to Their Sway: Cartagena's Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions.

Review :
'Lucid and engrossing, Unraveling Abolition spotlights the enslaved people who spearheaded Colombia's antislavery legal culture alongside jurists and politicians. This sweeping account brims with insights for historians of republicanism and its limits in the revolutionary Americas.' Caitlin Fitz, Northwestern University 'Unraveling Abolition is a masterful retelling of the struggle over emancipation at the dawn of the Colombian republic. Edgardo Pérez Morales ably shows the significance of the enslaved and free people who engaged in 'legal tinkering'. By fighting to end legal bondage through the judicial sphere, they remade the law itself. This book will no doubt be a valuable contribution to the fields of slavery and emancipation, legal history, and the Age of Revolutions.' Jason McGraw, Indiana University 'Unraveling Abolition is a welcome addition to the scholarship on enslaved litigants in Latin America who forged new paths to freedom using the courts. Pérez Morales skillfully demonstrates how enslaved people envisioned emancipation and pushed for abolition far beyond the cautious contours of gradual emancipation in the transition from colony to the republic of Gran Colombia.' Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon School of Law and author of Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700 'This book rightly centers the agency of Afro-Colombians for understanding the legal history of slavery and for promoting new ideas of human freedom. Pérez Morales uncovers a rich tradition of enslaved people appropriating the law, and even inventing new legal claims, to push for emancipation, both under Spanish colonialism and in the new independent Colombian republic. A major contribution.' James E. Sanders '… a fundamental contribution to the historiography of slavery, abolition, and revolution in Colombia. It offers a narrative that lucidly explains the historical imbrication of these three aspects and proposes a suggestive methodology for legal history. It also adds to the growing field of the African diaspora's intellectual history, taking seriously the original notions developed by the enslaved about slavery, freedom, and political belonging.' Katherine Bonil Gomez, Hispanic American Historical Review 'An important read.' Bruno Lima, Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781009514415
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 260
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: Studies in Legal History
  • Sub Title: Legal Culture and Slave Emancipation in Colombia
  • Width: 151 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1009514415
  • Publisher Date: 29 Aug 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 448 gr


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