Chira Publishes Piece from ‘Patchwork Freedoms’ in ‘Southern Spaces’

Colton’s Cuba, Jamaica and Porto Rico, 1885. Map by Colton, G.W., J. De Cordova, C. Wise, F.A. Chapman. Courtesy of David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

Dr. Adriana Chira, Assistant Professor of Atlantic World History, recently published a piece in Southern Spaces. The piece comes from Chira’s 2022 monograph Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba’s Plantations (Cambridge UP), which offers a new history of Black rural geography and popular legalism in nineteenth-century Cuba. Find out more about Patchwork Freedoms on Cambridge UP’s site and read the full Southern Spaces article: “Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba’s Plantations.”