...John C. Marquez Abstract In 1753, a pregnant woman named Paula was kidnapped in Angola, enslaved, and taken to Brazil. Four decades later, in 1794, Paula's children and grandchildren, 15 in total, filed a lawsuit for their family's freedom in Rio de Janeiro claiming that Paula was a free woman...

...Philip Brenner Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991 . By Gleijeses Piero . New Cold War History . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2013 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 655 pp...

... maroons to construct their freedom in more dimensions than was possible for other maroons who were unaware of such ideas” (p. 111). Millett insists that according Nicolls's ideas their due does not “undermine” the former slaves' “agency” (p. 258), and we should be long past drawing distinctions between...

...Elizabeth Kuznesof Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro . By Cowling Camillia . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2013 . Photograph. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 326 pp. Paper...

...Gisela Cramer The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights and US Cold War Policy toward Argentina . By Schmidli William Michael . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2013 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 256 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press...

...Alan Knight Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America . By Iber Patrick . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2015 . Photographs. Notes. Index. 327 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Nowadays, it is hard...

... between the White House and Miraflores, the presidential palace in Caracas. During the 1960s, the United States also successfully promoted democracy and modernization in Colombia and Costa Rica. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Precarious Paths to Freedom: The United States...

...Elizabeth Manley An Islandwide Struggle for Freedom: Revolution, Emancipation, and Reenslavement in Hispaniola, 1789–1809 . By Nessler Graham T. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2016 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xv, 294 pp. Paper , $29.95...

...Eric Paul Roorda We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom . By Anne Eller . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 381 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke...

...Christina C. Davidson The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World . By David Kazanjian . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 329 pp. Paper , $26.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University...

... in the policing of cultural boundaries. According to Wade, multiculturalism, whether in official state policy or community-based endeavors, is profoundly marked by the play of power between democracy/mixture and hierarchy/purity, much like mestizaje. Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom: Genomics...

...Carlos Aguirre Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor Among Lima’s Slaves, 1800-1854 . By Hünefeldt Christine . Translated by Stern Alexandra Minna . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1994 . Tables. Figures. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xi , 269...

...Oscar de la Torre Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia . By Claudia Leal . Latin American Landscapes . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2018 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 336 pp. Cloth...

...Darién J. Davis Struggles for Freedom: Essays on Slavery, Colonialism, and Culture in the Caribbean and Central America . By Bolland O. Nigel . Belize Chronicals Series, no. 4 . Belize City : Angelus Press , 1997 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography . 334 pp. Paper. Copyright 1999...

...Adam Rothman Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas . By Dantas Mariana L. R. . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2008 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 280 pp. Cloth . Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Mariana...

...Robert L. Paquette The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670–1780 . By Díaz María Elena . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2000 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xviii...

...David Murray From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery . By Drescher Seymour . Foreword by Engerman Stanley L. . New York : New York University Press , 1999 . Tables. Figures. Notes. Index . xxv , 454 pp. Cloth , $45.00...

...William C. Van Norman, Jr. The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas . By Barcia Manuel . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2012 . Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 234 pp. Cloth , $42.50 . © 2014...

...Brian P. Owensby Under this principle, a just ruling was one that hewed as closely as possible to the letter of the law while accommodating competing claims in light of the broader imperative that each person be able to enjoy the rights and freedoms and body forth the responsibilities...

...Matthew Pursell The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America . Edited by Law Robin and Lovejoy Paul E. . Princeton : Markus Wiener , 2001 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Appendixes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xvi...