Emancipated women in Cuba: strategies of freedom and motherhood inside of the conflict

The designation of said witnesses and the Surveillance Inspector was the first step to initiate any claim process. 2 In accordance with the provisions of the law, certain issues had to be clarified in the lawsuit initiated by Mariana.For example: with respect to the slave expedition in which he had arrived on the Island, he had to specify the name of the captain of the expedition ship, the place where the disembarkation took place and its date, and the date on which the Government Superior of the Island had declared the expedition exempt from its dependence. 31 National Archive of Cuba, Havana (ANC), Miscellany of Files, leg.3642, no.H. Prepared file of order of the Sr.Colonel Lieutenant Governor in investigation of whether the emancipated black woman Mariana Bravo corresponds to the class of emancipated, according to the same statement in the application presented