Ireton, C;
(2020)
Black Africans’ Freedom Litigation Suits to Define Just War and Just Slavery in the Early Spanish Empire.
Renaissance Quarterly
, 73
(4)
pp. 1277-1319.
10.1017/rqx.2020.219.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Black Africans’ Freedom Litigation Suits to Define Just War and Just Slavery in the Early Spanish Empire |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/rqx.2020.219 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2020.219 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10086881 |
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