@inbook{10.5149/9781469649658_helg.6,
 ISBN = {9781469649634},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469649658_helg.6},
 abstract = {Like marronage, self-purchase and military service were among the strategies used by slaves to obtain their freedom beginning with the first slave ship’s arrival in Hispaniola. And, like marronage, those strategies paved the way for the slow abolition of slavery throughout the nineteenth century. However, in contrast to marronage, they were forms not of revolt but rather of individual, familial, and at times community resistance that used existing legislative frameworks to escape a condition of servitude. The letter or certificate of freedom obtained by an emancipated slave was not only a legal document often carried on his or her person,},
 author = {Aline Helg and Lara Vergnaud},
 booktitle = {Slave No More: Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas},
 pages = {64--81},
 publisher = {University of North Carolina Press},
 title = {Self-Purchase and Military Service: Legal but Limited Paths to Emancipation},
 year = {2019}
}