Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic

AvChloe L. Ireton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Weaving together thousands of archival fragments, this study explores a shared Black Atlantic world where the meanings of slavery and freedom were fiercely contested and claimed. It recreates the worlds of extraordinary individuals and communities in the long sixteenth century, whilst mapping the development of early modern Black thought about slavery and freedom. From a free Black mother's embarkation license to cross the Atlantic Ocean, to an enslaved Sevillian woman's epistles to her freed husband in New Spain, to an enslaved man's negotiations with prospective buyers on the auction block in Mexico City, to a Black man's petition to reclaim his liberty after his illegitimate enslavement, Chloe L. Ireton explores how Africans and their descendants reckoned with laws and theological discourses that legitimized the enslavement of Black people and the varied meanings of freedom across legal jurisdictions. Their intellectual labor reimagined the epistemic worlds of slavery and freedom in the early modern Atlantic.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-12-05
Mått:157 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:703 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Afro-Latin America
Antal sidor:340
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009533485

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Slaveri inom Historia och arkeologi
Afrikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Chloe L. Ireton is Lecturer in the History of Iberia and the Iberian World 1500–1800 in the Department of History at University College London, and a current British Academy Wolfson Fellow. This is her first book.

Recensioner i media

'This book is an astounding, sweeping, and beautifully written intellectual exploration of the rich, complicated, and worldly lives of people of African descent as they negotiated experiences of enslavement and emancipation in the early modern Iberian Atlantic. It charts an extraordinary intellectual cartography of early modern Black living that upends how scholars think of Black movement and agency at the dawn of and decades into the Atlantic slave trade.' Yesenia Barragan, Rutgers University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Proving Freedom: Documenting Alhorría; 2. Imagining Freedom: Black Atlantic Communities in Sevilla; 3. Purchasing Freedom: Economics of Liberty in New Spain; 4. Defining Freedom: Infrastructures of Black Political knowledge between Sevilla & Mexico City; 5. Reclaiming Freedom: The Illegitimacy of Slavery in Black Thought; 6. Practicing Freedom: Documenting Capital; Coda: Felipa de la Cruz's World & Letters.