Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700

ISBN-13: 9781316620106 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 294 str.

Michelle A. McKinley

Opis

Fractional Freedoms examines paths to liberty forged in the slaveowning household, and legal claims brought by slaves in colonial Lima.

Recenzje

'McKinley's extensive work with church documents complicates the existing scholarship on slaves as legal actors … a primer on the most prominent types of legal disputes involving slaves.' Emily Berquist Soule, Latin American Research Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Litigating liberty; 2. Conjugal chains; 3. Dangerous dependencies; 4. Freedom at the font; 5. Till death do us part; 6. Buyer beware; 7. Conclusion.