Patchwork Freedoms

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The book explores the expansion of industrial plantations in nineteenth-century Latin America, coinciding with significant challenges to enslavement, including slave insurgencies and abolitionist movements. It highlights the resilience of free rural communities of African descent that emerged alongside these plantations, revealing a unique history of emancipation that diverged from mainstream liberal narratives. The interplay between industrialization and the fight for freedom offers a nuanced perspective on social and historical dynamics of the era.