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Freedom at the fringes? Slave flight and empire-building in the early modern Spanish borderlands of Essequibo–Venezuela and Louisiana–Texas
In spaces of contested sovereignty, self-emancipated slaves
exploited imperial rivalries to attain freedom, based on the
Spanish religious sanctuary. However, the status of foreign
escaped slaves always remained subject to issues of empire-building.
This article focuses on fugitive slaves from the Dutch
colony of Essequibo and territorial Louisiana looking for
freedom at the southern and northern borderlands of the
Spanish empire, respectively, in Venezuela and Texas. In the
former, increased Spanish control over the borderland created
more opportunities for ‘runaways’. In the latter, improvisation
led to erratic policies, related to pressure from US planters.
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- Hoonhout, B.M.; Mareite, T.J.F.
- Date
- 2018
- Journal
- Slavery & Abolition
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 61 - 86