Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor Among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520414969)

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. Slaves used their family solidarity as a strategy, while slaveowners used the conflicts within families to prevent manumission. The author's focus on gender relations between slaveowners and slaves, as well as between slaves, is particularly original. Her eye for ethnographic detail and her perceptive reading of the documentary evidence make this book a rich and important contribution to the study of slavery in Latin America. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Author: Christine H?nefeldt
ISBN-10: 0520414969
ISBN-13: 9780520414969
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2024
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d