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Fractional Freedoms - Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700 (Hardcover)
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Fractional Freedoms - Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Legal History
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Fractional Freedoms explores how thousands of slaves in colonial
Peru were able to secure their freedom, keep their families intact,
negotiate lower self-purchase prices, and arrange transfers of
ownership by filing legal claims. Through extensive archival
research, Michelle A. McKinley excavates the experiences of
enslaved women whose historical footprint is barely visible in the
official record. She complicates the way we think about life under
slavery and demonstrates the degree to which slaves were able to
exercise their own agency, despite being ensnared by the Atlantic
slave trade. Enslaved women are situated as legal actors who had
overlapping identities as wives, mothers, mistresses, wet-nurses
and day-wage domestics, and these experiences within the urban
working environment are shown to condition their identities as
slaves. Although the outcomes of their lawsuits varied, Fractional
Freedoms demonstrates how enslaved women used channels of affection
and intimacy to press for liberty and prevent the generational
transmission of enslavement to their children.
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