Description
| Product ID: | 9781316620106 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Studies in Legal History |
| Title: | Fractional Freedoms |
| Subtitle: | Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600–1700 |
| Authors: | Author: Michelle A. McKinley |
| Page Count: | 294 |
| Subjects: | History of the Americas, History of the Americas, Social and cultural history, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Legal history, Social & cultural history, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Legal history, Peru, c 1600 to c 1700 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-04-26 |
