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This article examines how two free black women in the Chocó province of New Granada (now Colombia) in the 1830s-1840s used place-based strategies to protect or free their enslaved kin. It analyzes a case in 1836 where an elderly free black grandmother protested in the streets of Quibdó after the death of her enslaved grandson to demand justice. It also examines an 1843 case where a free black mother in Lloró utilized her belonging to the local church to make a legal argument and win freedom for her enslaved

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dcaguenas

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