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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 In the sixteenth century hundreds of thousands of indios-indigenous peoples from the territories of the Spanish empire-were enslaved and relocated throughout the Iberian world. Although various laws and decrees outlawed indio enslavement, several loopholes allowed the practice to continue. In Global Indios Nancy E. van Deusen documents the more than one hundred lawsuits between 1530 and 1585 that indio slaves living in Castile brought to the Spanish courts to secure their freedom. Because plaintiffs had to prove their indio-ness in a Spanish imperial context, these lawsuits reveal the difficulties of determining who was an indio and who was not-especially since it was an all-encompassing construct connoting subservience and political personhood and at times could refer to people from Mexico, Peru, or South or East Asia. Van Deusen demonstrates that the categories of free and slave were often not easily defined, and she forces a rethinking of the meaning of indio in ways that emphasize the need to situate colonial Spanish American indigenous subjects in a global context. 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...
