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Freedom鈥檚 Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific
23 November 2021, 5:30 pm鈥�7:00 pm
An event part of the IHR Latin American History Seminar series
This event is free.
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- All
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- Yes
Cost
- Free
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Institute of Historical Research
Yesenia Barrag谩n will discuss her new book, published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press. In this work, Barragan rethinks the nineteenth-century project of emancipation by arguing that the liberal freedom generated through gradual emancipation constituted a modern mode of racial governance that birthed new forms of social domination, while temporarily instituting de facto slavery. Although gradual emancipation was ostensibly designed to destroy slavery, she argues that slaveholders in Colombia came to have an even greater stake in it.
Dr Bethan Fisk (University of Bristol) will comment.
All welcome 鈥� This event is free, but booking is required.
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果冻影院 Institute of the Americas is delighted to collaborate with the Institute of Historical Research (University of London) and other leading institutions in the organisation of this series
About the Speaker
Dr Yesenia Barrag谩n
Assistant Professor at Department of History, Rutgers University.
Dr Barrag谩n is a historian of modern Latin America and the Caribbean, specializing in the transnational history of race, slavery, and emancipation in Afro-Latin America and the African diaspora in the Americas. Other publications include Selling Our Death Masks: Cash-for-Gold in the Age of Austerity (Zero, 2014).
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