Abstract
In this book, race is considered as the essentialization of a human group according to biological and cultural criteria. Race is a political category, a social construction founded, in this case, to justify slavery from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries in three plantation regions: the present-day states of Virginia and Louisiana in the southern United States, and Cuba. The link of blackness with slavery constitutes the central axis of the research; it justified the systematization of the enslavement of people of color, as well as the permanence of this status and of the institution of slavery for centuries.
Keywords: Race, Freedom, Blackness, Slavery