It is Unjust for the Law of Marriage to be Broken by the Law of Slavery’
Married Slaves and their Masters in Early Colonial Lima
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9325758 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander L Wisnoski (Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 234-252 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavery and Abolition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-039X • E-ISSN: 1743-9523 |
| Publisher | Frank Cass & Co (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0144039x.2013.834165 |
| OpenAlex | W2078955689 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
This article examines the conflicts between married slaves and their masters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Lima. An investigation of ecclesiastical court cases shows the role that slave marriage played in limiting masters’ authority by preventing sales and forced migration of married slaves. By citing the Church's insistence on marital cohabitation, slaves had success impeding their masters’ agendas. The sacrament of marriage, however, did not guarantee absolute slave autonomy. Instead, masters could also use the courts, as well as their finances, to subvert the Church's protection of slave marriage. In the end, this article demonstrates how the ecclesiastical tribunal served as a place for meaningful redress for slaves, while still providing masters with ways to maintain control over the enslaved population
Autonomy · Cohabitation · Colonialism · Marriage law · Political science · Population · Redress · Sociology · Tribunal · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies in Latin America · Law
Cécile Fatiman and Petra Carabalí, Late Eighteenth-Century Haiti and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Judith and Hannah
Emma Lane Coger, Nineteenth-Century Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri (US)
Juana María Álvarez, Eighteenth-Century New Granada (Colombia)
Margarita de Sossa, Sixteenth-Century Puebla de los Ángeles, New Spain (Mexico)
María Hipólita Lozano, Eighteenth-Century Lima (Peru)
Laura E. Davis Titus, Nineteenth-Century Norfolk, Virginia (US)
Sarah Chauqum, Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island and Connecticut (US)
Gabriela, Nineteenth-Century Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Marion, Eighteenth-Century Natchitoches, Louisiana (US)
María Remedios del Valle, Nineteenth-Century Argentina
Juana Ramírez, Eighteenth-Century Oaxaca, New Spain (Mexico)
As If She Were Free
Reytory Angola, Seventeenth-Century Manhattan (US)
Minerva, Nineteenth-Century Téjas and Louisiana (US), and Mexico
Paula de Eguiluz, Seventeenth-Century Puerto Rico, Cuba, and New Granada (Colombia)
Maria Firmina dos Reis, Nineteenth-Century Maranhão (Brazil)
Carrie Williams Clifford, Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Ohio (US)
Elizabeth Key, Seventeenth-Century Virginia (US)
Anna Maria Lopes de Brito, Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Hannah Manena McKenney, Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Bermuda and New Providence (Bahamas)
Protections and Rights
Modeling Black Piety and Community Membership in the Virgin of Altagracia Medallions
Fractional Freedoms
Intimate knowledge and the making of witnesses in Lima’s seventeenth-century divorce court
Exquisite Slaves
"An "Imponderable Servitude
If they remained as mere words”
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2.55 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |