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The chapter will show how slave brandings were part of the Cuban slave system from the eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Our aim is to use written sources to define the typology of iron branding and to underscore how iron brands were a technology used within and for the Cuban slave system. Our focus is to emphasize how iron branding, described in the bureaucratic documents of the Spanish Crown, was a technology for the control of slaves and vectors of the slave masters’ agency and of the Cuban colonial administration.
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We would like to thank the Brazilian National Science Foundation (CNPq) for providing the opportunity for the authors to work jointly in Cuba and Brazil as from 2010. We also owe thanks to the colleague of the Multidisciplinary Laboratory of Archeological Investigation and of the Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana. Thanks are also due to Pedro Paulo Funari, Francisco Silva Noelli and Charles Orser. The responsibility for the ideas are own and we are thus solely responsible.
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Ferreira, L., La Rosa, G. (2015). The Archeology of Slave Branding in Cuba. In: Funari, P., Orser Jr., C. (eds) Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of African Slavery in Latin America. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1264-3_4
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