From Colonial Cuba to Madrid Díaz Paperback Cambridge University Press

From Colonial Cuba to MadridLitigating Collective Freedom and Native Rights in the Spanish Empire, 17801814\nAuthor(s): Mara Elena Daz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009494229, 978-1009494229\nSynopsis\nFrom Colonial Cuba to Madrid examines the largest and most complex freedom suit litigated in the highest court of the Spanish empire at the end of the eighteenth century. Filed by hundreds of re-enslaved Afro descendant people who had lived in quasi-freedom in eastern Cuba for more than a century, this action drew on local customary practices and broader cultural, political, and legal discourses rooted in the Spanish Atlantic world to put forward novel claims to collective freedom and native based rights at a time when questions of slavery, freedom, and citizenship were igniting in many parts of the Atlantic world. Intersecting law, society studies, and the history of slavery, Mara Elena Daz .