The Hidden Face of Urban Slavery A Look at the Coartados Rental Market In 1845, the Cuban Junta de Fomento, seeing an escalating crisis develop in front of their own eyes, complained that “infinite [numbers],” of coartados ...

Starting from the rich historiographical advance done in Peru, I suggest that the slavery modalities were not exclusively ruled by the geographic space (urban/country), but was also important in the massive minoring use ...

Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.The essays presented in New Frontiers of Slavery represent new analytical and interpretive approaches to the crisis of Atlantic ...

This paper provides the first survey of slave prices for Santiago de Chile, c.1773-1822. It also establishes the main determinants of slave prices during this period. We gathered and analysed over 3,800 sale operations. ...

Wage-Earning Slaves is the first systematic study of coartación, a process by which slaves worked toward purchasing their freedom in installments, long recognized as a distinctive feature of certain areas under Spanish ...