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

Fractional Freedoms examines paths to liberty forged in the slaveowning household, and legal claims brought by slaves in colonial Lima.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Litigating liberty; 2. Conjugal chains; 3. Dangerous dependencies; 4. Freedom at the font; 5. Till death do us part; 6. Buyer beware; 7. Conclusion.

About the author

Michelle A. McKinley is the Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law at the University of Oregon Law School. She has published extensively on public international law, globalization, and legal history, particularly the law of slavery. McKinley has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Newberry Library, and was fellow in residence at Princeton University's Law and Public Affairs program. She was awarded the Surrency Prize by the American Society for Legal History, and the Lidia Parra Jahn award for her article 'Illicit Intimacies'.

Summary

How could enslaved women assert legal claims to personhood, wages, and virtue when the law regarded them as mere property? Fractional Freedoms tells the story of enslaved legal actors within the landscape of Hispanic urban slavery, focussing on women who were socially disadvantaged, economically active and extremely litigious.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle A. Mckinley, Michelle A. (University of Oregon) Mckinley, McKinley Michelle A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781316620106
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62010-6
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: Studies in Legal History; Studies in Legal History (Pape; Studies in Legal History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Peru, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, Legal History, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, C 1600 To C 1700, Slavery and abolition of slavery