From colonial Cuba to Madrid : litigating collective freedom and native rights in the Spanish Empire, 1780-1814 / María Elena Díaz.

From Colonial Cuba to Madrid examines the largest and most complex freedom suit litigated in the highest court of the Spanish empire at the end of the eighteenth century. Filed by hundreds of re-enslaved Afro descendant people who had lived in quasi-freedom in eastern Cuba for more than a century, t...

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