Landscapes of freedom: building a postemancipation society in the rainforests of western Colombia

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Voyages into the Rainforest: An Introduction in Three Acts -- Part I: An Extractive Economy -- 1. Slave Mining and Emancipation -- 2. Freedom and the Persistence of Extraction -- 3. Traders in Natural Commodities -- 4. The Politics of Natural Resource Access -- Part II: Racialized Landscapes -- 5. Blackness, Forests, and Nation -- 6. Urban Dreams and Nightmares -- Conclusion: A People and an Environment with History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index