ISBN:
9781469617879
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (345 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.896/0861
Keywords:
Blacks -- Colombia -- History
;
Blacks -- Colombia -- Atlantic Coast -- History
;
Slaves -- Emancipation -- Colombia -- History
;
Freedmen -- Colombia -- History
;
Working class -- Colombia -- History
;
Labor -- Colombia -- History
;
Citizenship -- Colombia -- History
;
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Abstract:
This book tells the compelling story of postemancipation Colombia, from the liberation of the slaves in the 1850s through the country's first general labor strikes in the 1910s. As McGraw demonstrates, ending slavery fostered a new sense of citizenship, one shaped both by a model of universal rights and by the particular freedom struggles of African-descended people. Colombia's Caribbean coast was at the center of these transformations, in which women and men of color, the region's majority population, increasingly asserted the freedom to control their working conditions, fight in civil wars, and express their religious beliefs.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Emancipatory Moment -- 2 Revolution of the People, War of the Races -- 3 The Freedom of Industry and Labor -- 4 The Lettered Republic -- 5 The Rise and Fall of Popular Politics -- 6 A Hungry People Struggles -- 7 Class War of a Thousand Days -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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