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 ...

Sugar cane plantations began to incorporate coartados in the mid-nineteenth century. This chapter examines the shift of labor from city to country. While many coartados did everything in their power to remain in Havana, ...

In 1840, the Audiencia Pretorial of Havana proposed eight new regulations in order to give the state’s attorneys more control over the síndicos appointed by the city council.¹ The Audiencia proposed that when a slave’s ...

When slaves were seized, complications often arose between those claiming ownership over them. Dire as their situation was, things took a turn for the worse when coartados entered the depósitos, where their special status ...

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 ...

María del Carmen was a twenty-five-year-old African woman when, in 1813, she was recorded as being ethnically Carabalí and a “coartada,” having a past that included four prior owners.¹ That same year María del Carmen was ...

la participación infantil en su relación con el adultocentrismo, tiene su accionar coartado, debido a que las acciones están dirigidas a los niños y niñas, pero sin tomar en cuenta lo que piensan o lo que sienten, sin la ...

Pocos objetos son tan habituales como los mapas, presentes en nuestra vida cotidiana de manera tan recurrente que casi nos pasan desapercibidos. Los contemplamos a diario y sin apenas damos cuenta en la prensa, en revistas ...