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Global Indios - The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain (Paperback)
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Global Indios - The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain (Paperback)
Series: Narrating Native Histories
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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.
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