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2 - Slavery and the Urban Pacific Frontier

from Part I - The Social Universe of the Colombian Black Pacific

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2021

Yesenia Barragan
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Jersey
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Summary

Chapter 2 leaves the rural rainforests of the northern Pacific lowlands for its two small urban frontier towns: Nóvita—the capital of Chocó before independence—and Quibdó—the capital of Chocó afterward—where the majority population of white slaveholders and mineowners lived alongside the entrepreneurial merchants from Jamaica, France, and Italy who began to settle in the Pacific lowlands after independence. Based on tax records, wills, travelogues, and other archival sources, this chapter offers a door-to-door geography of Quibdó after the Wars of Independence and explores the small-scale slaveholding central to its households. Despite slavery’s slow destruction under gradual emancipation rule, the local trade in slaves and Free Womb children paradoxically remained as active as ever in Chocó well into the 1830s and 1840s.

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Freedom's Captives
Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific
, pp. 73 - 104
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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