Mastering the law : slavery & freedom in the legal ecology of the Spanish Empire /
Atlantic slavery can be overwhelming in its immensity and brutality, as it involved more than fifteen million souls forcibly displaced by European imperialism and consumed in building the global economy. Mastering the Law: Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire lays out the d...
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Atlantic crossings.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : slavery and the law in Latin America
- Empire, province, law, and enslaved Afroiberians
- Cases of faith
- Slaves and the courts
- Royal justice.