From Colonial Cuba to Madrid - Litigating Collective Freedom and Native Rights in the Spanish Empire, 1780¿1814

This book examines freedom and native based rights through a unique collective suit filed by hundreds of Afro descendant litigants in colonial Cuba. Crossing various disciplines, it will interest students and scholars of the African diaspora, Afro-Latin America, slavery, the Spanish empire, legal studies, and the age of revolutions.