{"title":"Adriana Chira, Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race Beyond Cuba's Plantations Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 320. $102.95 hardcover (ISBN 9781108499545); $33.95 paperback (ISBN 9781108730808); $24 ebook (ISBN 9781108606677).","authors":"Mariana Armond Dias Paes","doi":"10.1017/S0738248022000645","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A patchwork is made up of many bits of cloth of different colors, materials, and patterns woven together to beautiful effect. That is an accurate metaphor for the careful work that Adriana Chira has done in Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race Beyond Cuba ’ s Plantations . She has stitched together bits of information found in various sources and forged a cutting-edge argument about the making of law in Santiago de Cuba, where long-standing, custom-based manumission practices and widespread popular legalism crafted an enti-tled peasantry of African descent in the region. Chira ’ s findings are based on a meticulous analysis of court cases, testaments, manumission papers, parish records, official correspondence, and juridical writings.","PeriodicalId":17960,"journal":{"name":"Law and History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Law and History Review","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248022000645","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
Adriana Chira, Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race Beyond Cuba's Plantations Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 320. $102.95 hardcover (ISBN 9781108499545); $33.95 paperback (ISBN 9781108730808); $24 ebook (ISBN 9781108606677).
A patchwork is made up of many bits of cloth of different colors, materials, and patterns woven together to beautiful effect. That is an accurate metaphor for the careful work that Adriana Chira has done in Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race Beyond Cuba ’ s Plantations . She has stitched together bits of information found in various sources and forged a cutting-edge argument about the making of law in Santiago de Cuba, where long-standing, custom-based manumission practices and widespread popular legalism crafted an enti-tled peasantry of African descent in the region. Chira ’ s findings are based on a meticulous analysis of court cases, testaments, manumission papers, parish records, official correspondence, and juridical writings.
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Law and History Review (LHR), America"s leading legal history journal, encompasses American, European, and ancient legal history issues. The journal"s purpose is to further research in the fields of the social history of law and the history of legal ideas and institutions. LHR features articles, essays, commentaries by international authorities, and reviews of important books on legal history. American Society for Legal History