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Informationen zum Autor Nancy E. van Deusen is Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of Between the Sacred and the Worldly: The Institutional and Cultural Practice of Recogimiento in Colonial Lima and The Souls of Purgatory: The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesús. Klappentext Nancy E. van Deusen is Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of Between the Sacred and the Worldly: The Institutional and Cultural Practice of Recogimiento in Colonial Lima and The Souls of Purgatory: The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesús.¿ Zusammenfassung Nancy van Deusen examines over one hundred lawsuits that indio slaves brought to the Spanish court in the mid-sixteenth century to gain their freedom. The category indio was largely constructed during these lawsuits! and van Deusen emphasizes the need to situate colonial indigenous subjects and slavery in a global context. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. All the World in a Village: Carmona 34 2. Crossing the Atlantic and Entering Households 64 3. Small Victories? Gregorio López and the Reforms of the 1540s 99 4. Into the Courtroom 125 5. Narratives of Territorial Belonging, Just War, and Ransom 147 6. Identifying Indios 169 7. Transimperial Indios 192 Conclusions 219 Notes 231 Bibliography 289 Index 319
