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This article describes and analyzes the paths followed by the enslaved afrodescendants of the Paraná city at the transition to free labor. Focusing on their experiences and trajectories, it seeks to find some clues to understand the transformations in the labor relations and the role of these subjects in the reconfiguration of the labor market at the local level. The starting point is the Estadística de esclavos de la provincia de Entre Ríos redacted in 1848. Considering the information provides about Paraná, it proceeds to link with other sources, such as provincial and national censuses, church records, notary books and court cases. From these documents, it reconstructs labor trajectories, family networks and forms of social mobility, contributing to highlights the complex and unfinished transition process between slave and free labor in a situated context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The happy circumstance of tracing the origins of the captain of the slaving schooner Amistad to the Balearic island of Ibiza (known in Catalan as Eivissa) has brought to light unpublished data from Ibizan archives regarding Ramón Ferrer, his brother Damián and other sailors from that island. The latter were Gabriel Matutes, Joan Prats, and probably Vicente Arabí, who joined the Ferrer brothers in illegal slave trafficking in Caribbean waters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents an assessment of the number of slaves in 19th century Cuba based on Spanish and Cuban official census data, British estimations and demographic calculations. The author focuses on the period of Cuban slave emancipation between 1867 and 1886 and considers the relationship with the labor needs of the Cuban sugar industry. He also mentions some of the reason for the earlier ambiguity regarding the number of slaves including the influence of international anti-slavery treaties and the collusion between the Cuban authorities and plantation owners.

The objective of this work is to reflect on how the issue of slavery/abolition appears in the works of Machado de Assis. First, the records found on this theme in his novels, short stories and chronicles will be catalogued and displayed. Next, some explanatory hypotheses will be presented for the relative distancing of Machado from slavery and the abolitionist movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Explanations of the Abolitionist movement's success in Brazil (1888) have, since the 1960s and 1970s, emphasised the movement's material context, its class nature, and the agency of the captives. These analyses have misunderstood and gradually ignored the movement's formal political history. Even the central role of urban political mobilisation is generally neglected ; when it is addressed, it is crippled by lack of informed analysis of its articulation with formal politics and political history. It is time to recover the relationship between Afro-Brazilian agency and the politics of the elite. In this article this is illustrated by analysing two conjunctures critical to the Abolitionist movement: the rise and fall of the reformist Dantas cabinet in 1884-85, and the relationship between the reactionary Cotegipe cabinet (1885-88), the radicalisation of the movement, and the desperate reformism that led to the Golden Law of 13 May 1888. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The novel Sab (1841) by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda is a major critical contribution concerning patriarchal society and the enslavement of the subject of African descent in Cuba. However, Sab is not an abolitionist text: the discourse on race coincides with the expectations of the white dominant culture. This article places Avellaneda's narrative within the socio-cultural project of Creole reformists who promoted a gradual end of slavery with financial compensation for the slave owners, a transition from slave to free salaried labor, and, most importantly, the whitening of Cuban society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reflects on the meaning that the slavery as well as his abolition have in the formation of the public-political, understanding it as the common references that regulate the social relations and the criteria of legitimization, shared by those who are perceived as members of the society. It asks for the role of the enslaved population during the building process of the references of citizenship and of the Republic during the first half of the XIX century. The slavery system inhibited the participation of the slaves in the construction of the public. Despite the resistance of this population and, after the independence, in spite of the attempts of a sector of the elite for turning them into free and equal citizens allowing their access to the space of freedom of the republic, during the process of abolition, the interests and the social and racial prejudices of the slavers had the priority, thus, prolonging the formal abolition until the middle of the century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]