Elementos de identidade
Nome e localização da entidade custodiadora
Nível de descrição
Coleção
Título
Junta Provincial de Patronato de Matanzas records
Data(s)
- 1871-1889 (Produção)
Dimensão
3 Boxes
Nome do produtor
História administrativa
The Junta Provincial de Patronato de Matanzas was created in 1880 when the law of patronato was passed in Spain. The patronato system represented a legal strategy to gradually abolish enslavement in Cuba through an "apprenticeship" process. The patronato was the mechanism established to oversee the transformation of enslavers (masters) into patronos and of enslaved people into patrocinados. "It represented an intermediate stage between slavery and freedom during which former slaves would owe labor to their former masters, but would receive a token wage in return" ("Gradual Abolition and the Dynamics of Slave Emancipation in Cuba, 1868-86," by Rebecca J. Scott. Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 63, No. 3 [Aug. 1983], p. 457). The Junta functioned as a provincial entity and, with the civil governor, oversaw the local juntas in municipalities and cities.
Elementos de conteúdo e estrutura
Âmbito e conteúdo
The abolition of enslavement in Cuba took place gradually over the course of several years. In 1880, the Spanish colonial government instituted a system called patronato, loosely translated as "apprenticeship." Most of the workings of the enslavement system were preserved, but patrocinados, as former enslaved people came to be known, received a minimal set of legal rights and were to be paid a token wage. The transition to the patronato system was overseen by a provincial network of government agencies called Juntas de Patronato. The Junta Provincial de Patronato de Matanzas was created in 1880 when the Law of Patronato was passed. As a central body, it processed claims and cases from a series of local juntas throughout the province of Matanzas. The records in this collection contain official documents, correspondence between local juntas and the main junta, and tables reporting names or numbers of patrocinados. The collection also documents the cases of individual patrocinados who were trying to obtain their freedom through the provisions of the new law.
All of the materials in this collection have been digitized and are available through the University of Miami Digital Collections.
Sistema de arranjo
This collection maintains the original order of case folios.
Condições de acesso e uso dos elementos
Condições de acesso
This collection is open for research.
Acesso físico
Acesso técnico
Condiçoes de reprodução
Requests to publish or display materials from this collection require written permission from the rights owner. Please contact chc@miami.edu for more information.
Preferred citation: Junta Provincial de Patronato de Matanzas records, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
Idiomas do material
- espanhol
Escrita do material
Notas ao idioma e script
Instrumentos de descrição
Instrumento de pesquisa gerado
Elementos de aquisição e avaliação
História custodial
Fonte imediata de aquisição
Purchase, 2012.
Informações de avaliação, seleção e eliminação
Ingressos adicionais
All of the materials in Box 1 and folders 1-66 of Box 2 and folders 1-17 of Box 3 are part of a large purchase of a group of materials whose original order was maintained. Subsequent folders added to this collection are from various purchases and gifts and are kept together by accession as they are received.
Elementos de materiais relacionados
Existência e localização de originais
Existência e localização de cópias
The collection has been digitized and is available here: https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/chc5298
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Processed by Natalie Baur and described by Ana D. Rodríguez, 2013. Revised by Natalie Baur, July 2013. Updated by Rebeca Gonzalez, May 2021. References to enslavement updated by Amanda Moreno, June 2022, as part of reparative description project by the University of Miami Libraries Inclusive Metadata Remediation Working Group.