Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor Among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854

by Christine Hunefeldt

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Christine H nefeldt documents in impressive, moving detail the striving and ingenuity, the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sought liberation in nineteenth-century urban Peru. Drawing on judicial, ecclesiastical, and notarial records--including the testimony of the slaves themselves--she uncovers the various strategies slaves invented to gain their freedom. H nefeldt pays particular attention to marriage relations and family life...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520302346

ISBN13:9780520302341

Release Date:August 2018

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:282 Pages

Weight:0.92 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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