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Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700
Michelle McKinley-
Cover
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Half title
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Studies in Legal History
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Title page
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Imprints page
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Contents
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Figures
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Tables
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Maps
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Slavery, Comparative Slavery Studies, and the Law
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Manumission, Quasi Emancipation, and Gendering the Tannenbaum Thesis
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Law, Christendom, and Slavery
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Sources
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Baroque Lima: Between the Hapsburgs and before the Bourbons
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Freedom in Installments
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Chapter Outlines
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Notes
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1 Litigating Liberty
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The Law of Slavery vis-à-vis Enslaved Litigants
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Baroque Lima
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Mercy in the Marketplace
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The (Oftentimes) Lengthy Life of a Lawsuit
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“Ante mi” and “en nombre de”: The Lower Branches of Lima’s Legal Profession
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Procurators in Action
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Spiritual Subpoenas: “censuras hasta anatema”
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A Litigious Society?
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On Being and Becoming Bran
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Conclusion
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Notes
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2 Conjugal Chains
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Methodology and Sources
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Imperial Law and Slave Marriage
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Slavery, Property Rights, and Marriage Obligations
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Matrimonial Conflicts
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Married Life in Lima
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Discipline, Banishment, and Holy Matrimony
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Conclusion
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Notes
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3 Dangerous Dependencies
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Annulment and Divorce in Ecclesiastical Courts
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Iberian Racial Formations in the Americas
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The Annulment Petition of Pedro Ramírez and María Josefa Martínez
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On Wives, Termites, and Widgets
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Notes
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4 Freedom at the Font
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Searching for Slavery’s Middle Ground: Freed Children of Enslaved Mothers
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Holy Laboring Women: Enslaved donadas in Lima’s Convents
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Baptismal Manumission and cartas de libertad
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Proving Childhood Emancipation and Baptismal Manumission through censuras
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Ambiguous Patrons: “Unknown” Fathers and Baptismal Manumission
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Baptism and Social Networks of Enslaved Families
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Conclusion
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Notes
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5 Till Death Do Us Part
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Testament, Inheritance, and Manumission
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Being of Sound Mind, I Do Solemnly Declare, That This Is my Last Will and Testament, Made of My Own Free Will
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Suing Their Way to Freedom? The Legal Battle over Micaela’s Last Will and Testament
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Dead Women Tell No Tales? Piecing Together Fragments of Micaela’s Life
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On Agency, Administrative Backlog, and Resistance (Not Necessarily in That Order)
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Notes
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6 Buyer Beware
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Drunk and Disorderly
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Choosing among Owners
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From the Cloisters to the Secular World: Sales of criadas in Lima’s Market for Domestic Slaves
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Domestic Discipline
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Slave Prices in Lima, 1600–1699
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Accounting for Illness and Death
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At the Nexus between Property and Person
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Notes
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Conclusion
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Race, Religion, and Engaged Conversion
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Notes
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Note on References and Bibliography
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References Cited
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Index
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Published: 2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 9781316620106 (paper)
- 9781316718216 (ebook)
- 9781107168985 (hardcover)