Subordinate but proud: Curaçao's free blacks and mulattoes in the eighteenth century
Focuses on the socio-economic position of free non-whites in 18th-c. Curaçao. The manumission rate was relatively high and consequently a large group of free non-whites was created. Blacks and mulattoes enjoyed religious freedom as well as considerable economic freedom. Their growing numbers and soc...
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BRILL
1994-07-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/nwig/article/view/3290 |