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

Michelle McKinley 2018 © Cambridge University Press

Series

ACLS Fellows’ Publications

ISBN(s)

9781107168985 (hardcover)
9781316718216 (ebook)
9781316620106 (paper)

Subject

Citable Link

Table of Contents
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Cover
Half title
Studies in Legal History
Title page
Imprints page
Contents
Figures
Tables
Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
- Slavery, Comparative Slavery Studies, and the Law
- Manumission, Quasi Emancipation, and Gendering the Tannenbaum Thesis
- Law, Christendom, and Slavery
- Sources
- Baroque Lima: Between the Hapsburgs and before the Bourbons
- Freedom in Installments
- Chapter Outlines
- Notes
1 Litigating Liberty
- The Law of Slavery vis-à-vis Enslaved Litigants
- Baroque Lima
- Mercy in the Marketplace
- The (Oftentimes) Lengthy Life of a Lawsuit
- “Ante mi” and “en nombre de”: The Lower Branches of Lima’s Legal Profession
- Procurators in Action
- Spiritual Subpoenas: “censuras hasta anatema”
- A Litigious Society?
- On Being and Becoming Bran
- Conclusion
- Notes
2 Conjugal Chains
- Methodology and Sources
- Imperial Law and Slave Marriage
- Slavery, Property Rights, and Marriage Obligations
- Matrimonial Conflicts
- Married Life in Lima
- Discipline, Banishment, and Holy Matrimony
- Conclusion
- Notes
3 Dangerous Dependencies
- Annulment and Divorce in Ecclesiastical Courts
- Iberian Racial Formations in the Americas
- The Annulment Petition of Pedro Ramírez and María Josefa Martínez
- On Wives, Termites, and Widgets
- Notes
4 Freedom at the Font
- Searching for Slavery’s Middle Ground: Freed Children of Enslaved Mothers
- Holy Laboring Women: Enslaved donadas in Lima’s Convents
- Baptismal Manumission and cartas de libertad
- Proving Childhood Emancipation and Baptismal Manumission through censuras
- Ambiguous Patrons: “Unknown” Fathers and Baptismal Manumission
- Baptism and Social Networks of Enslaved Families
- Conclusion
- Notes
5 Till Death Do Us Part
- Testament, Inheritance, and Manumission
- Being of Sound Mind, I Do Solemnly Declare, That This Is my Last Will and Testament, Made of My Own Free Will
- Suing Their Way to Freedom? The Legal Battle over Micaela’s Last Will and Testament
- Dead Women Tell No Tales? Piecing Together Fragments of Micaela’s Life
- On Agency, Administrative Backlog, and Resistance (Not Necessarily in That Order)
- Notes
6 Buyer Beware
- Drunk and Disorderly
- Choosing among Owners
- From the Cloisters to the Secular World: Sales of criadas in Lima’s Market for Domestic Slaves
- Domestic Discipline
- Slave Prices in Lima, 1600–1699
- Accounting for Illness and Death
- At the Nexus between Property and Person
- Notes
Conclusion
- Race, Religion, and Engaged Conversion
- Notes
Note on References and Bibliography
- References Cited
Index