Fractional freedoms: slavery, intimacy, and legal mobilization in colonial Lima, 1600-1700

Fractional Freedoms explores how thousands of slaves in colonial Peru were able to secure their freedom, keep their families intact, negotiate lower self-purchase prices, and arrange transfers of ownership by filing legal claims. Through extensive archival research, Michelle A. McKinley excavates th...

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1. Verfasser: McKinley, Michelle A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Cambridge University Press 2016
Schriftenreihe:Studies in legal history
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Zusammenfassung:Fractional Freedoms explores how thousands of slaves in colonial Peru were able to secure their freedom, keep their families intact, negotiate lower self-purchase prices, and arrange transfers of ownership by filing legal claims. Through extensive archival research, Michelle A. McKinley excavates the experiences of enslaved women whose historical footprint is barely visible in the official record. She complicates the way we think about life under slavery and demonstrates the degree to which slaves were able to exercise their own agency, despite being ensnared by the Atlantic slave trade. Enslaved women are situated as legal actors who had overlapping identities as wives, mothers, mistresses, wet-nurses and day-wage domestics, and these experiences within the urban working environment are shown to condition their identities as slaves. Although the outcomes of their lawsuits varied, Fractional Freedoms demonstrates how enslaved women used channels of affection and intimacy to press for liberty and prevent the generational transmission of enslavement to their children
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Introduction -- Litigating Liberty -- Conjugal Chains -- Dangerous Dependencies -- Freedom at the Font -- Till Death Do Us Part -- Buyer Beware -- Conclusion
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 282 pages)
ISBN:9781316718216
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781316718216

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