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  • 1 - Black Freedom and the Aquatic Lowlands

  • from Part I - The Social Universe of the Colombian Black Pacific
  • Yesenia Barragan, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    Freedom's Captives
    Published online:
    18 June 2021
    Print publication:
    01 July 2021, pp 39-72

  • Summary

    Chapter 1 introduces readers to the everyday world of the nineteenth-century Colombian Black Pacific—often neglected in the dominant historiography of colonial and nineteenth-century Colombia—through a narrative-driven historical geography and ethnography of Chocó. Through the journeys of a free black boga (rower) and a female gold miner, among other figures, the first chapter shows the everyday ways in which free blacks and (to some extent) slaves continued to trouble white governmentality during the gradual emancipation years. In many ways, free black and captive lowlanders experienced unparalleled levels of autonomy and independence in this mining frontier by maintaining control over the region’s labyrinth of rivers and gold mines. This chapter likewise reveals how the gold-mining economy’s gendered social structure was transformed after independence and gradual emancipation rule, as enslaved and free black women became the primary laborers in mines increasingly worked by Free Womb captives.