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

Michelle McKinley
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  • Contents

  • 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
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Published: 2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781316620106 (paper)
  • 9781316718216 (ebook)
  • 9781107168985 (hardcover)
Series
  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Subject
  • LegalLatin American
  • Latin American
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