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- Title
Black Africans' Freedom Litigation Suits to Define Just War and Just Slavery in the Early Spanish Empire.
- Authors
Ireton, Chloe L.
- Abstract
This article explores how some enslaved Black Africans litigated for their freedom in Spanish royal courts in the sixteenth century on the basis that—as Christians—they had been unjustly enslaved in Africa. With a focus on the port cities of Seville and Cartagena, I explore how freedom litigation suits illuminate how individuals from starkly different social worlds and intellectual milieus—who inhabited the same urban sites—affected and shaped one another's intellectual landscapes. I trace how enslaved Africans' epistemologies of just slavery shaped broader discourses on the just enslavement of Africans in the Spanish Empire.
- Subjects
BLACK people; EMANCIPATION of slaves; CHRISTIANS; SLAVERY; ENSLAVED persons; JUSTICE administration; SLAVERY &; the church; JUST war doctrine; LIBERTY &; religion; 16TH century Spanish history
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2020, Vol 73, Issue 4, p1277
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/rqx.2020.219