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Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600–1700 - Studies in Legal History
McKinley, Michelle A. (University of Oregon)
Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600–1700 - Studies in Legal History
McKinley, Michelle A. (University of Oregon)
How could enslaved women assert legal claims to personhood, wages, and virtue when the law regarded them as mere property? Fractional Freedoms tells the story of enslaved legal actors within the landscape of Hispanic urban slavery, focussing on women who were socially disadvantaged, economically active and extremely litigious.
294 pages, 1 b/w illus. 4 maps 16 tables
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | October 14, 2016 |
ISBN13 | 9781107168985 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Dimensions | 237 × 163 × 24 mm · 723 g (Weight (estimated)) |