{"id":21041,"date":"2025-03-10T00:38:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T18:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/?p=21041"},"modified":"2025-10-05T00:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:16:29","slug":"freedoms-how-enslaved-people-won-their-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/fr\/freedoms-how-enslaved-people-won-their-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment les personnes r\u00e9duites en esclavage ont conquis leurs droits"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading translation-block\">Personnes r\u00e9duites en esclavage et r\u00e9sistance juridique dans <em>Patchwork Freedoms<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Comment les personnes esclaves et libres d\u2019ascendance africaine ont-elles navigu\u00e9 dans des syst\u00e8mes juridiques oppressifs pour cr\u00e9er des espaces d\u2019autonomie ? <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4kCXxJc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patchwork Freedoms<\/a><\/em>, d\u2019Adriana Chira, laur\u00e9at du <strong>James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History (2023)<\/strong> et du <strong>Peter Gonville Stein Book Award (2023)<\/strong>, propose une exploration approfondie des strat\u00e9gies d\u2019\u00e9mancipation dans la Cuba du XIX<sup>e<\/sup> si\u00e8cle. Publi\u00e9 par <strong>Cambridge University Press<\/strong>, ce livre salu\u00e9 par la critique d\u00e9voile comment les communaut\u00e9s afrodescendantes de Santiago de Cuba ont d\u00e9fi\u00e9 le pouvoir colonial par des recours juridiques et des droits coutumiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Comment les personnes r\u00e9duites en esclavage ont utilis\u00e9 le droit pour conqu\u00e9rir leur libert\u00e9<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">A diferencia de las historias convencionales sobre la abolici\u00f3n, centradas en decretos pol\u00edticos y decisiones de las \u00e9lites, <em>Patchwork Freedoms<\/em> traslada el foco hacia las batallas jur\u00eddicas cotidianas libradas por los afrodescendientes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" src=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/enslaved-people_Punishing_Slaves_in_Cuba.tif.webp\" alt=\"Enslaved people, by Harper's Weekly (Nov. 28, 1868) vol.12, p. 753.\" class=\"wp-image-21341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/enslaved-people_Punishing_Slaves_in_Cuba.tif.webp 800w, https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/enslaved-people_Punishing_Slaves_in_Cuba.tif-300x224.webp 300w, https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/enslaved-people_Punishing_Slaves_in_Cuba.tif-768x574.webp 768w, https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/enslaved-people_Punishing_Slaves_in_Cuba.tif-16x12.webp 16w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Enslaved people, by Harper&#8217;s Weekly (Nov. 28, 1868) vol.12, p. 753.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Chira examine minutieusement les dossiers judiciaires, les archives municipales et les t\u00e9moignages communautaires pour d\u00e9montrer que <strong>la libert\u00e9 n\u2019a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 accord\u00e9e d\u2019en haut, mais patiemment construite depuis la base<\/strong>. Cette th\u00e8se s\u2019inscrit dans les d\u00e9bats historiographiques r\u00e9cents sur l\u2019\u00ab \u00e9mancipation par le bas \u00bb, mettant en avant l\u2019agence des groupes marginalis\u00e9s plut\u00f4t que la bienveillance des autorit\u00e9s coloniales.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4kCXxJc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cover-of-the-book-Patchwork-Freedoms_Law-Slavery-and-Race-beyond-Cubas-Plantations-by-Adriana-Chira.webp\" alt=\"Cover-of-the-book-Patchwork-Freedoms_Law-Slavery-and-Race-beyond-Cubas-Plantations-by-Adriana-Chira\" class=\"wp-image-21042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cover-of-the-book-Patchwork-Freedoms_Law-Slavery-and-Race-beyond-Cubas-Plantations-by-Adriana-Chira.webp 340w, https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cover-of-the-book-Patchwork-Freedoms_Law-Slavery-and-Race-beyond-Cubas-Plantations-by-Adriana-Chira-204x300.webp 204w, https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cover-of-the-book-Patchwork-Freedoms_Law-Slavery-and-Race-beyond-Cubas-Plantations-by-Adriana-Chira-8x12.webp 8w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">L\u2019ouvrage explore des th\u00e8mes cl\u00e9s tels que la <strong>manumission par coartaci\u00f3n<\/strong> (auto-rachat \u00e9chelonn\u00e9), les <strong>droits coutumiers<\/strong> et l\u2019<strong>autonomie juridique locale<\/strong>. Chira illustre comment les personnes esclaves et libres de Santiago de Cuba ont utilis\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re strat\u00e9gique les tribunaux coloniaux, en n\u00e9gociant avec les autorit\u00e9s locales pour \u00e9largir progressivement leurs droits. Comme elle le d\u00e9montre, ces luttes juridiques ont fa\u00e7onn\u00e9 des mouvements politiques plus vastes, influen\u00e7ant les guerres d\u2019ind\u00e9pendance de Cuba et l\u2019abolition finale de l\u2019esclavage dans les ann\u00e9es 1880.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">L\u2019un des arguments les plus puissants du livre est que la culture juridique \u00e0 Santiago diff\u00e9rait consid\u00e9rablement de celle d\u2019autres soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de plantations. Contrairement aux hi\u00e9rarchies raciales rigides observ\u00e9es en Louisiane ou en Jama\u00efque, les communaut\u00e9s de Santiago ont mis en \u0153uvre un <strong>l\u00e9galisme vernaculaire<\/strong>, dans lequel les contrats oraux, les r\u00e9putations locales et les r\u00e9seaux communautaires jouaient un r\u00f4le d\u00e9terminant dans les issues judiciaires. Cette analyse remet en cause le r\u00e9cit dominant selon lequel les syst\u00e8mes juridiques renfor\u00e7aient uniform\u00e9ment l\u2019oppression raciale, et met plut\u00f4t en lumi\u00e8re la <strong>fluidit\u00e9 et la contestation au sein du droit colonial<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Par ailleurs, <em>Patchwork Freedoms<\/em> nourrit les discussions contemporaines sur la justice raciale et l\u2019activisme juridique. En illustrant comment les communaut\u00e9s marginalis\u00e9es ont utilis\u00e9 le droit \u00e0 la fois comme outil de r\u00e9sistance et comme espace de confrontation, l\u2019ouvrage fait \u00e9cho aux d\u00e9bats actuels sur les in\u00e9galit\u00e9s syst\u00e9miques et les mobilisations locales. \u00c0 une \u00e9poque o\u00f9 les combats juridiques continuent de fa\u00e7onner la justice raciale et \u00e9conomique, le travail de Chira apporte une profondeur historique aux luttes actuelles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Lasting Impact of Enslaved People&#8217;s Legal Struggles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><em>Patchwork Freedoms<\/em> nous pousse \u00e0 reconsid\u00e9rer ce que signifiait r\u00e9ellement l\u2019\u00e9mancipation pour celles et ceux qui l\u2019ont v\u00e9cue. Plut\u00f4t qu\u2019un \u00e9v\u00e9nement unique dict\u00e9 par des lois, la libert\u00e9 fut un <strong>processus in\u00e9gal, contest\u00e9 et n\u00e9goci\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle locale<\/strong>. Gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la rigueur de ses recherches et \u00e0 la richesse de sa narration, Chira propose un ouvrage incontournable pour les sp\u00e9cialistes de <a href=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/fr\/henry-christophe-haitis-revolutionary-king\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"19459\" target=\"_self\">l\u2019histoire atlantique<\/a>, du droit et de la <a href=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/fr\/how-afro-cuban-women-shaped-modern-cuba\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"19549\" target=\"_self\">r\u00e9sistance noire<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Pour celles et ceux qui s\u2019int\u00e9ressent aux complexit\u00e9s de l\u2019\u00e9mancipation historique et \u00e0 la puissance de l\u2019activisme juridique, <em>Patchwork Freedoms<\/em> constitue un ajout indispensable \u00e0 toute biblioth\u00e8que. <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4kCXxJc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Le livre est disponible ici<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-foxiz-elements-note gb-wrap note-wrap none-padding yes-shadow\" style=\"--heading-border-color:#88888822;--border-width:0 0 0 0;--desktop-header-padding:15px 30px 15px 30px;--tablet-header-padding:15px 25px 15px 25px;--mobile-header-padding:15px 20px 15px 20px;--desktop-padding:15px 30px 30px 30px;--tablet-padding:15px 25px 25px 25px;--mobile-padding:15px 20px 20px 20px\"><div class=\"note-header gb-header\"><span class=\"note-heading\"><span class=\"gb-heading heading-icon\"><i class=\"rbi rbi-idea\"><\/i><\/span><h4 class=\"gb-heading none-toc\">D\u00e9couvrez d\u2019autres livres prim\u00e9s<\/h4><\/span><\/div><div class=\"note-content gb-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-85d11b1a wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-container-content-a507e214\"><a href=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/fr\/henry-christophe-haitis-revolutionary-king\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"336\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-king-of-Haiti-Haitiens.webp\" alt=\"Portrait of Henry Christophe: A Haitian King\u2019s Rise and Legacy\" class=\"wp-image-15445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-king-of-Haiti-Haitiens.webp 336w, https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-king-of-Haiti-Haitiens-202x300.webp 202w, https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-king-of-Haiti-Haitiens-8x12.webp 8w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3CGHA3K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Silver-Women_How-Black-Womens-Labor-Made-the-Panama-Canal.webp\" alt=\"Couverture du livre &lt;em&gt;The Silver Women: How Black Women\u2019s Labor Made the Panama Canal&lt;\/em&gt;\" class=\"wp-image-19577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Silver-Women_How-Black-Womens-Labor-Made-the-Panama-Canal.webp 331w, https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Silver-Women_How-Black-Womens-Labor-Made-the-Panama-Canal-199x300.webp 199w, https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Silver-Women_How-Black-Womens-Labor-Made-the-Panama-Canal-8x12.webp 8w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-container-content-a507e214\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/42JsMvI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cover-of-the-book-Black-Women-Citizenship-and-the-Making-of-Modern-Cuba-Afro-Cuban.webp\" alt=\"Couverture de &lt;em&gt;Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba&lt;\/em&gt; de Takkara K. Brunson (University Press of Florida, 2021), sur le r\u00f4le des femmes afro-cubaines dans la construction de l\u2019identit\u00e9 cubaine moderne.\" class=\"wp-image-19552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cover-of-the-book-Black-Women-Citizenship-and-the-Making-of-Modern-Cuba-Afro-Cuban.webp 333w, https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cover-of-the-book-Black-Women-Citizenship-and-the-Making-of-Modern-Cuba-Afro-Cuban-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cover-of-the-book-Black-Women-Citizenship-and-the-Making-of-Modern-Cuba-Afro-Cuban-8x12.webp 8w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4gy5dt0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Police-Provocation-Politics_Counterinsurgency-in-Istanbulb-policing.webp\" alt=\"Couverture du livre &lt;em&gt;Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul&lt;\/em&gt; (police)\" class=\"wp-image-19566\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Police-Provocation-Politics_Counterinsurgency-in-Istanbulb-policing.webp 330w, https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Police-Provocation-Politics_Counterinsurgency-in-Istanbulb-policing-198x300.webp 198w, https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Police-Provocation-Politics_Counterinsurgency-in-Istanbulb-policing-8x12.webp 8w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4hxfM0T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/State-Building-as-Lawfare-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19559\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/State-Building-as-Lawfare-1.webp 333w, https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/State-Building-as-Lawfare-1-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/State-Building-as-Lawfare-1-8x12.webp 8w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laur\u00e9at du James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History (2023) et du Peter Gonville Stein Book Award (2023).<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":59,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1147],"tags":[1200,971],"ppma_author":[230],"class_list":{"0":"post-21041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-laureates","8":"tag-racism","9":"tag-slavery"},"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","authors":[{"term_id":230,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"prr","display_name":"P&amp;RR","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Untitled-design.png","url2x":"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Untitled-design.png"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24040,"href":"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21041\/revisions\/24040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21041"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicsrights.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=21041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}