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- Title
Litigating for Liberty: Enslaved Morisco Children in Sixteenth-Century Valladolid.
- Authors
Cavanaugh, Stephanie M.
- Abstract
Morisco children captured during the Granadan war of 1568–70, known as the Second War of the Alpujarras, could attain legal but limited freedom in accordance with Philip II’s 1572 law against the enslavement of Morisco minors. Those manumitted were meant to remain servants in Old Christian households until the age of majority. The Spanish monarchy recognized the political value of controlling children. Aiming to turn the children of Morisco rebels into proper Christian subjects, the king authorized and facilitated their liberation as part of a larger project of Morisco conversion. Granadan Moriscos worked within the law in pursuit of liberation, yet took action to reunite families separated by slavery and deportation when possible.
- Subjects
VALLADOLID (Spain); SPAIN; MORISCOS; CATHOLIC Church -- Relations -- Islam; 16TH century Spanish history; CATHOLIC Church; CONVERSION to Christianity; HISTORY of slavery; SIXTEENTH century; HISTORY; LEGAL status of enslaved persons
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2017, Vol 70, Issue 4, p1282
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/695347