“…Research indicates that although agregados could be from any ethnic background, it was relatively common for formerly enslaved persons -during the time of slavery -to engage in this kind of dependency relationship after acquiring manumission. 208 Continuous repetition and daily enforcement of these connections gave this institution a particular social significance. The transformation of formerly enslaved persons into agregados might have played a central role in transforming this legal category into a constitutive and structural feature of Latin American societies.…”
Section: Memories As Shared Cultural Backgroundsmentioning
“…Research indicates that although agregados could be from any ethnic background, it was relatively common for formerly enslaved persons -during the time of slavery -to engage in this kind of dependency relationship after acquiring manumission. 208 Continuous repetition and daily enforcement of these connections gave this institution a particular social significance. The transformation of formerly enslaved persons into agregados might have played a central role in transforming this legal category into a constitutive and structural feature of Latin American societies.…”
Section: Memories As Shared Cultural Backgroundsmentioning
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