Problematizing dichotomies.

Analysis of the labor universe of african descent people during the gradual abolition of slavery. Buenos aires, 1827

Abstract

This research has the purpose of examining the labor universe of African descent people who lived and travelled through the city of Buenos Aires during the gradual abolition of slavery, specifically during the year 1827. The study emphasizes the spaces of ambiguity, the grey areas, and the interstices, rethinking and problematizing the dichotomies slavery/emancipation; forced labor/free labor; substitution of slave labor/free labor. It also underlines the need to distinguish the gender and racialization cleavages present in the post-revolutionary labor universe: to what extent did the relations formed in and by slavery persist during the abolition of slavery? How is the complex continuity and discontinuity between the different modalities assumed by slave labor and free labor in the city of Buenos Aires? What were the possibilities and conditionings of gender and raciality present in the labor universe?

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