This dissertation analyzes the relationships between honor and slavery in Portuguese America. It seeks to shed light on how the ownership, exploitation, and good administration of slaves gave rise to a new conception of honor born from an interpersonal relationship based on the maximum concentration of powers in the hands of the master and in the slaves loss of all privileges, rights and powers. As an intrinsic feeling or an external valuation, with origins in medieval Portugal up to the Old Regime, honor was adapted and molded to the interests, values and socio-political conceptions of...
This dissertation analyzes the relationships between honor and slavery in Portuguese America. It seeks to shed light on how the ownership, exploitatio...