La narración de la esclavitud en el «Expediente de reclamación de libertad para una negra natural de Bahamas»

[Autom. eng. transl.] The study of slavery has highlighted the fundamental role that narrative has had in the creation of a certain image of the slave and the Afro-descendant subject. The way in which science and the institutions of the colony presented and described the enslaved subject produced analytical categories that persist even today. The present work aims to reason about the possibility of recovering information about how slavery was narrated in the colony based on the information compiled in the archival documents of that time. Taking as a starting point the 'File of claim for freedom for a black woman from the Bahamas' available in the archives of the Ministry of Overseas, my objective will be to analyze how the narrative of the case that saw Placia Lawrence face the colonial justice of Cuba developed. Mid-nineteenth century. To base the work I will base myself on narratology: if the story is the form through which reality becomes tangible, the form with which an event is narrated represents its insertion into the world and the basis of its recognition. From this data, I will try to outline the structure of the narratives proposed in this document by identifying the instances (functions, actions and discourse) that make up the narrative of slavery proposed by the colonial institutions of the time.