Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism, and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima, 1593–1689

Abstract

In 1629, Gaspar Zape sought a preliminary injunction in Lima's ecclesiastical court against Gerónimo Vosmediano de Leon to prevent him from shipping Juliana Brán off to Chile. Gaspar learned that Vosmediano de Leon, his wife's owner, planned to send Juliana off to Chile as a wet nurse for his newborn granddaughter. Acting quickly, Gaspar sought court intervention basing his injunction on his right to marital unity and cohabitation that was the prerogative of enslaved married couples granted by the Siete Partidas. 1 Vosmediano de Leon responded by invoking his

Arqueología histórica en el Perú: posibilidades y perspectivas

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Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865. By Christopher Tomlins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 636 pp. $36.99 paper.

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