Pesa más la libertad
Slavery, Legal Claims, and the History of Afro-Latin American Ideas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3363729 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graubart, Graubart Graubart (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 427 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5309/willmaryquar.78.3.0427 |
| OpenAlex | W3185937252 |
| Language | ES |
| Citations received | 7 |
In 1677 and 1681, four enslaved men of African descent held in a jail in Lima, Peru, sent a series of petitions requesting amparo, or royal protection for the vulnerable, to the highest jurisdictions in the Spanish Empire. Their final petition, written in collaboration with an unknown adviser with legal and theological knowledge and drawing upon the men's experience laboring in a hat manufactory (obraje) alongside Indigenous workers, argued for freedom for themselves and for all other enslaved men and women of mixed Spanish and African heritage. In that petition the men drew upon existing critiques of just war and the African slave trade, and they questioned why conversion to Christianity had not cleansed their souls of the supposed stain of Blackness. Their language suggests a world where racial theories were inverted and Black subjects understood themselves to deserve the legal status of Indians. Although the petitions were unsuccessful, the radical power of their ideas forced the monarch's Council of the Indies to respond. The documents reveal the circulation of complex antislavery arguments within an enslaved community and a shared intellectual world that included Indigenous, Black, and Spanish thinkers
African american · African descent · Ancient history · Art · Christianity · Emperor · Empire · Ethnology · Humanities · Indigenous · Latin Americans · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · History and Politics in Latin America · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
Dialogic Depositions
Interpreting slavery
As Slaves and Not Vassals
Transimperial mobilities, slavery, and becoming Catholic in eighteenth-century Cartagena de Indias
Soundbites of racial cartographies in the Early Modern Atlantic
Entre Graça E Direitos
Pardo Soldiers' Historical Claims in Late Eighteenth-Century Cuba
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |