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Yesenia Barragan is a historian of race, slavery, emancipation, and social movements in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and the African Diaspora in the Americas and an Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers, she was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific (Cambridge, 2021) and Selling Our Death Masks: Cash-for-Gold in the Age of Austerity (Zero, 2014). She is also the Principal Investigator of The Free Womb Project, a multilingual collection of gradual emancipation laws across the Atlantic World, the founder and convener of the Slavery and Freedom Studies Working Group at Rutgers, and is currently an Early Career Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers.