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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (3): 361–391.
Published: 01 August 1993
... the label imposed by the slaveowners. As a group, they sought and continually created common symbols they could share among themselves. Ethnicity was thereby symbolically recreated in the New World slave community. How, then, was this ethnic solidarity represented in the manumission of slaves...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (4): 603–635.
Published: 01 November 1974
..., controversy again emerges over the motivations and functions of manumission, that is, the voluntary freeing of slaves. It is clear that very little is known about the process or how it operated. The basic questions of who, why, how, and how many have never been studied in depth. Instead, a series...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (1): 173.
Published: 01 February 1973
...Gwendolyn M. Hall The Laws of the British Colonies, in the West Indies and Other Parts of America Concerning Real and Personal Property and Manumission of Slaves with a View of the Constitution of Each Colony . 2 vols. in 1. By Howard John Henry . Westport, Connecticut , 1970 (1827...
View articletitled, The Laws of the British Colonies, in the West Indies and Other Parts of America Concerning Real and Personal Property and <span class="search-highlight">Manumission</span> of Slaves with a View of the Constitution of Each Colony Notes on the West Indies: Written During the Expedition under the Command of the Late General Sir Ralph Abercromby: Including Observations on the Island of Barbadoes, and the Settlements Captured by the British Troops, Upon the Coast of Guiana; Likewise Remarks Relating to the Creoles and Slaves of the Western Colonies, and the Indians of South America: with Occasional Hints, Regarding The Seasoning, or Yellow Fever of Hot Climates
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for article titled, The Laws of the British Colonies, in the West Indies and Other Parts of America Concerning Real and Personal Property and <span class="search-highlight">Manumission</span> of Slaves with a View of the Constitution of Each Colony Notes on the West Indies: Written During the Expedition under the Command of the Late General Sir Ralph Abercromby: Including Observations on the Island of Barbadoes, and the Settlements Captured by the British Troops, Upon the Coast of Guiana; Likewise Remarks Relating to the Creoles and Slaves of the Western Colonies, and the Indians of South America: with Occasional Hints, Regarding The Seasoning, or Yellow Fever of Hot Climates
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (4): 656–678.
Published: 01 November 1969
... manumission system, aprendizaje met with resistance and evasion by owners of manumiso service and by the manumisos themselves. Before tracing this chronicle of deviousness, a detailed knowledge concerning the mechanisms of apprenticeship is necessary. Since at eighteen or twenty-one the manumiso...
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Gender and the Manumission of Slaves in New Spain
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (2): 309–336.
Published: 01 May 2006
... of scholars who try to understand patterns of manumission throughout the Americas. Many scholars have looked to sexual relations between male masters and female slaves, and the paternity of children resulting from those unions, to explain why most slaves were freed. Such explanations arise within a conception...
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Manumission in Colonial Buenos Aires, 1776-1810
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (2): 258–279.
Published: 01 May 1979
...Lyman L. Johnson During the last five years a series of important new studies on manumission in Latin America have appeared. 1 Although manumission had been discussed previously by almost every student of slavery in Latin America, earlier analyses were handicapped severely by the nature...
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in The Manumission of Slaves in Colonial Brazil: Bahia, 1684-1745
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Published: 01 November 1974
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (1): 65–99.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Cassia Roth; Robson Pedrosa Costa Abstract This article explores gradual manumission policies on the Order of Saint Benedict's slaveholdings in the Northeastern province of Pernambuco, Brazil, between 1866 and 1871. Relying on private religious records from the Monastery of Saint Benedict of Olinda...
View articletitled, “Maria Simoa, Who Birthed Twenty-Four Children”: Slavery, Motherhood, and Freedom on the Benedictine Estates, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1866–1871
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Emancipatory Narratives and Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830–1888
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (3): 522–523.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Lorena Féres da Silva Telles [email protected] Part 3 reassesses the historical narratives of manumission and miscegenation, engaging a critical historiography that challenges the myth of racial democracy in Brazil and also exploring the tensions between the roles played...
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Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 162–164.
Published: 01 February 2015
... in gaining freedom for themselves and, especially, for their children, as well as the characteristics of that agency. She makes a strong argument that enslaved women in both countries were the most frequent, persistent, and successful advocates for manumission for themselves and their children in the late...
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Slave No More: Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (2): 328–329.
Published: 01 May 2020
... four main strategies of self-liberation: flight and marronage , manumission, military service in exchange for individual emancipation, and mass revolt. Part 1 provides an overview of the Atlantic slave trade and of the various demographic and geographic realities of slavery in the Americas...
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Licentious Liberty in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region: Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabara, Minas Gerais
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (2): 387–388.
Published: 01 May 2001
... relative to their numbers prior to 1760 is also seen within this context. Higgins emphasizes the results of the race/sex ratios in the prevalence of concubinage at all levels of society, regardless of the views of the church. Higgins does not, however, see manumission of the slave lover as an automatic...
View articletitled, Licentious Liberty in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region: Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabara, Minas Gerais
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Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (4): 725–726.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the practice of manumission, the legal act of releasing an enslaved person from slavery. In Cartagena during the independence period, manumission became a bargaining chip used by local government and white elites to form a contingent of free people supportive of the emerging nation. White concerns over Black...
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Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 701–703.
Published: 01 November 2009
... recent historiography on slavery, Dantas views slave hiring and manumission as the result of a process of bargaining between masters and slaves. Rather than a “breach” in the slave system, these practices were integral to its smooth functioning in cities and towns across much of the Americas...
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“Damned Notions of Liberty”: Slavery, Culture, and Power in Colonial Mexico, 1640–1769
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (4): 755–757.
Published: 01 November 2012
... “the lack of ideological domination by the elite” (p. 6). Moreover, slaves’ reactions shed light on the spaces within which they sought to “ expand their control over labor, family, cultural beliefs, and even access to manumission,” rather than attempt to dismantle slavery’s conceptual under pinnings (p. 8...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (4): 580–597.
Published: 01 November 1972
... manumission was often optional and even revocable. 27 Koster, Travels in Brazil , I, 194, 197; II, 217. Herbert H. Smith, Brazil, the Amazons and the Coast (New York, 1879), p. 470, observed that “the emancipation spirit is very strong” in Pernambuco. Gilberto Freyre, The Masters and the Slaves...
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Homens esquecidos: escravos e trabalhadores livres no Brasil, sécalos XVIII e XIX A escravidão reabilitada
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (4): 871–873.
Published: 01 November 1991
... protection, marriage, the family, manumission, the garden plot, the freeman), many of the same topics favored by the Freyre-Tannenbaum school. These, of course, are legitimate subjects for research and analysis, but stressing the exceptional at the expense of the common, even if well intended, can lead...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (1): 149–150.
Published: 01 February 1997
..., was driven not by the slaveowners’ economic rationale but by the slaves’ own initiatives. Hiinefeldt documents the gradual decline of the slave population in the haciendas and shows that in spite of evident obstacles, accumulation, leading to manumission, was an important avenue to freedom for rural slaves...
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Slaves and the Creation of Legal Rights in Cuba: Coartación and Papel
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (4): 659–692.
Published: 01 November 2007
...-purchase) and request for paper (pedir papel) to seek a new owner, two institutions with deep roots in the island. Through coartación, masters and slaves agreed on a manumission price that could not be subsequently altered. 3 Slaves could then make partial payments toward their freedom. As María’s case...
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“A Lack of Legitimate Obedience and Respect”: Slaves and Their Masters in the Courts of Late Colonial Buenos Aires
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (4): 631–657.
Published: 01 November 2007
... under the thin protections of the courts, to express contempt, not deference, toward their masters, describing them, for example, as “belligerent,” “cruel,” “filled with pride,” or “filled with hate” for the slave. 7 Free blacks attempting to gain the manumission of a relative were even less...
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