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'A startlingly original study of more than a thousand freed persons, former royal slaves who were re-enslaved and then litigated for their liberty. Díaz investigates the unusual legal arguments these men and women, through their Black advisors and representatives, deployed to present themselves as a free people, native to a free Black town, within the context of the Bourbon Enlightenment. Continuing her compelling microhistory of the people of El Cobre, Díaz reminds us that there is still much to learn from enslaved and free Black litigants in the Spanish empire.' Karen Graubart, author of Republics of Difference: Religious and Racial Self-Governance in the Spanish Atlantic World

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María Elena Díaz is Associate Professor of Latin American History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre, 1670–1780 (2002), which was selected as an ACLS Humanities ebook.

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