The manumission index records Catharina de Vasolle, aged 22 and daughter of Maria Conception, on 30 December 1858. The entry restores a name and maternal relationship to the historical record, while remaining an administrative account rather than a full biography.
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What is the strongest decolonial reading of the manumission records?
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The records show legal pathways and individual names alongside colonial procedures, fees, bonds, and silences.
Every manumission record preserves the freed person’s own words.
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The entries are administrative and often omit personal testimony.