Yesenia Barragan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1127541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yesenia Barragan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yesenia |
| FAMILY NAME | Barragan |
| SIGNATURE | BARRAGAN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Latin America in the Antebellum Black Press
This article reveals how Latin America figured prominently in the antebellum African American press. Through an exploration of twenty-four antebellum Black newspapers, this article focuses on three core themes circulating within these papers: the slave trade, abolition and emancipation, and racial equality across Latin America. Divided into three thematic sections, this article shows how African American newspapers were deeply concerned with the …
Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific
Freedom's Captives is a compelling exploration of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Pacific coast of Colombia, the largest area in the Americas inhabited primarily by people of African descent. From the autonomous rainforests and gold mines of the Colombian Black Pacific, Yesenia Barragan rethinks the nineteenth-century project of emancipation by arguing that the liberal freedom generated through gradual emancipation constitu…
C ommerce in C hildren: Slavery, Gradual Emancipation, and the Free Womb Trade in Colombia
In 1821, as the Wars of Independence drew to a close, officials of the newly created republic of Gran Colombia passed a national gradual emancipation law. At the center of it was a Free Womb law that declared legally free the children of enslaved women born after the law's promulgation, while bonding these children to their mothers’ masters until the age of 18. Yet, in addition to establishing a term limit on their legalized captivity, the law st…
Gendering mastery: Female slaveholders in the Colombian Pacific lowlands
This article examines the lives and power exercised by female slaveholders in the frontier lowlands of the Pacific coast of Colombia during the first half of the nineteenth century. Utilizing records from the Independence era to the abolition of slavery in 1852, it explores the varied economic activities, wealth management strategies, and administrative methodologies of lowlands mistresses in order to demonstrate their centrality in the preservat…
To End 500 Years of Great Terror: For Afro-Colombian communities, the struggle for peace and justice is centuries long—and remains far from over
Death, Slavery, and Spiritual Justice on the Colombian Black Pacific (1837)
Quibdó, the frontier, majority-black capital of Chocó on the Pacific Coast of New Granada (present-day Colombia), was declared to be in a state of “general alarm” when a free black woman launched a street protest after her enslaved grandson, Justo, was murdered by his Italian master in August 1836. This article explores the contending spiritual politics that emerged in the wake of Justo’s death, and how his death became a point of political confl…
C ommerce in C hildren: Slavery, Gradual Emancipation, and the Free Womb Trade in Colombia
In 1821, as the Wars of Independence drew to a close, officials of the newly created republic of Gran Colombia passed a national gradual emancipation law. At the center of it was a Free Womb law that declared legally free the children of enslaved women born after the law's promulgation, while bonding these children to their mothers’ masters until the age of 18. Yet, in addition to establishing a term limit on their legalized captivity, the law st…
Death, Slavery, and Spiritual Justice on the Colombian Black Pacific (1837)
Quibdó, the frontier, majority-black capital of Chocó on the Pacific Coast of New Granada (present-day Colombia), was declared to be in a state of “general alarm” when a free black woman launched a street protest after her enslaved grandson, Justo, was murdered by his Italian master in August 1836. This article explores the contending spiritual politics that emerged in the wake of Justo’s death, and how his death became a point of political confl…
To End 500 Years of Great Terror: For Afro-Colombian communities, the struggle for peace and justice is centuries long—and remains far from over
Gendering mastery: Female slaveholders in the Colombian Pacific lowlands
This article examines the lives and power exercised by female slaveholders in the frontier lowlands of the Pacific coast of Colombia during the first half of the nineteenth century. Utilizing records from the Independence era to the abolition of slavery in 1852, it explores the varied economic activities, wealth management strategies, and administrative methodologies of lowlands mistresses in order to demonstrate their centrality in the preservat…
Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific
Freedom's Captives is a compelling exploration of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Pacific coast of Colombia, the largest area in the Americas inhabited primarily by people of African descent. From the autonomous rainforests and gold mines of the Colombian Black Pacific, Yesenia Barragan rethinks the nineteenth-century project of emancipation by arguing that the liberal freedom generated through gradual emancipation constitu…
C ommerce in C hildren: Slavery, Gradual Emancipation, and the Free Womb Trade in Colombia
In 1821, as the Wars of Independence drew to a close, officials of the newly created republic of Gran Colombia passed a national gradual emancipation law. At the center of it was a Free Womb law that declared legally free the children of enslaved women born after the law's promulgation, while bonding these children to their mothers’ masters until the age of 18. Yet, in addition to establishing a term limit on their legalized captivity, the law st…
Latin America in the Antebellum Black Press
This article reveals how Latin America figured prominently in the antebellum African American press. Through an exploration of twenty-four antebellum Black newspapers, this article focuses on three core themes circulating within these papers: the slave trade, abolition and emancipation, and racial equality across Latin America. Divided into three thematic sections, this article shows how African American newspapers were deeply concerned with the …
Political science (6 works) · History (4 works) · History and Politics in Latin America (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Emancipation (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)