Sentiment and the Law
Inventing the Category of the Wretched Slave in the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo, 1783–1812
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9317475 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ana Hontanilla (0000-0001-5173-2672, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 181-200 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-2586 • E-ISSN: 1086-315X |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/ecs.2015.0008 |
| OpenAlex | W2026079079 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 16 |
This essay explores the idea of the “pious humaneness” of the Spanish monarchy as it manifested in the legal and judicial activities of the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo . In the 1780s, two new imperial policies relating to slavery held the potential to improve slaves’ lives. I focus on slaves’ power to denounce and correct neglect or abusive punishment in light of the new imperial policies. I reexamine social historians’ assumption that laws related to “humane” treatment were not enforced. They often were, and were several times even strengthened over masters’ objections. Slave treatment was a social order problem
Economics · Monarchy · Neglect · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Punishment (psychology · Social order · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Cuban History and Society · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Juana Ramírez, Eighteenth-Century Oaxaca, New Spain (Mexico)
Maria Firmina dos Reis, Nineteenth-Century Maranhão (Brazil)
Carrie Williams Clifford, Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Ohio (US)
Elizabeth Key, Seventeenth-Century Virginia (US)
Emma Lane Coger, Nineteenth-Century Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri (US)
Minerva, Nineteenth-Century Téjas and Louisiana (US), and Mexico
Gabriela, Nineteenth-Century Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Cécile Fatiman and Petra Carabalí, Late Eighteenth-Century Haiti and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Paula de Eguiluz, Seventeenth-Century Puerto Rico, Cuba, and New Granada (Colombia)
María Hipólita Lozano, Eighteenth-Century Lima (Peru)
Juana María Álvarez, Eighteenth-Century New Granada (Colombia)
Anna Maria Lopes de Brito, Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Margarita de Sossa, Sixteenth-Century Puebla de los Ángeles, New Spain (Mexico)
Marion, Eighteenth-Century Natchitoches, Louisiana (US)
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María Remedios del Valle, Nineteenth-Century Argentina
Sarah Chauqum, Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island and Connecticut (US)
Hannah Manena McKenney, Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Bermuda and New Providence (Bahamas)
Reytory Angola, Seventeenth-Century Manhattan (US)
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| Citations per year | 3.83 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |