Author Description

"This book provides definitive information on the identity and status of the emancipados who were a special group of Africans in Brazil and Cuba in particular and Latin America in general. The author establishes the fact that the peculiar nature of the introduction of the emancipados into Brazil and America made them free Africans both de jure and de facto thereby setting them distinctly apart from freed Africans or slaves in the Brazilian and Cuban slave societies in comparison to whom the emancipados enjoyed a clearly more favorable status within the slave societies."--Publisher description.