Tapuya (Jan 2021)

Black peasants and forest extraction knowledge in the transition to free labor in Latin America: Landscapes of freedom: building a post emancipation society in the rainforest of Western Colombia, by Claudia Leal, Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2018, 352 pp., $55 (hardback)/$36.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780816536740/9780816536740; The people of the river. Nature and identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945, by Oscar de la Torre, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2018, 242 pp., $90 (hardback)/$34.95 (paperback), ISBN 9781469643236/9781469643243