Mastering the Law
Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire, by Ricardo Raúl Salazar Rey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7933056 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan José Ponce Vázquez (0000-0001-9241-3184, University of Alabama Department of History U.S.A. Tuscaloosa AL, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 151-152 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1382-2373 • E-ISSN: 2213-4360 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134360-09601048 |
| OpenAlex | W4221022902 |
| Language | EN |
Ricardo Raúl Salazar Rey, Mastering the Law: Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2020. xvii + 192 pp. (Cloth US$ 49.95)In line with the fruitful historiographical trend that explores the agency of enslaved Afro-descendants in the Spanish empire, Ricardo Raúl Salazar Rey analyzes their complex relationship with legal institutions, in this case in Cartagena and its environs under the Spanish Habsburgs. In less than 200 pages, he makes a powerful case that Africans mobilized the Spanish secular and religious legal systems to their advantage, including for
Empire · Historiography · Humanities · Legal culture · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Cuban History and Society · History and Politics in Latin America · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |