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    After emancipation in 1851, the African descendants living in the extra-humid rainforests of the Pacific coast of Colombia attained levels of autonomy hardly equaled anywhere else in the Americas. This autonomy rested on their access to a diverse environment—including small strips of fertile soils, mines, forests, rivers, and wetlands—that contributed to their subsistence and allowed them to procure gold, platinum, rubber, and vegetable ivory for export. Afro-Colombian slave labor had produced

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    After emancipation in 1851, the African descendants living in the extra-humid rainforests of the Pacific coast of Colombia attained levels of autonomy hardly equaled anywhere else in the Americas. This autonomy rested on their access to a diverse environment—including small strips of fertile soils, mines, forests, rivers, and wetlands—that contributed to their subsistence and allowed them to procure gold, platinum, rubber, and vegetable ivory for export. Afro-Colombian slave labor had produced

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    L ATIN AMERICAN L A ND S CA P E S

    Christopher R. Boyer and Lise Sedrez


    Series Editors

    Editorial Board
    Guillermo Castro Herrera
    Jose Augusto Drummond
    Stefania Gallini
    Stuart McCook
    John R. McNeill
    Shawn Miller
    Cynthia Radding
    John Soluri

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    CL AUDIA LE A L

    LANDSCAPES
    OF FREEDOM

    Building a Postemancipation Society in the


    Rainforests of Western Colombia

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    CONTENTS

    List of Illustrations ix
    Acknowledgments xi

    Voyages into the Rainforest: An Introduction in Three Acts 3

    PART I: AN EXTRACTIVE ECONOMY

    1. Slave Mining and Emancipation 27


    2. Freedom and the Persistence of Extraction 61
    3. Traders in Natural Commodities 89
    4. The Politics of Natural Resource Access 113

    PART II: RACIALIZED LANDSCAPES

    5. Blackness, Forests, and Nation 155


    6. Urban Dreams and Nightmares 185

    Conclusion: A People and an Environment with History 224

    Notes 233
    Bibliography 305
    Index 329

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