Nancy van Deusen examines over one hundred lawsuits that indio slaves brought to the Spanish court in the mid-sixteenth century to gain their freedom. The category indio was largely constructed during these lawsuits, and van Deusen emphasizes the need to situate colonial indigen…
Nancy van Deusen examines over one hundred lawsuits that indio slaves brought to the Spanish court in the mid-sixteenth century to gain their freedom. The category indio was largely constructed during these lawsuits, and van Deusen emphasizes the need to situate colonial indigen…
In the sixteenth century hundreds of thousands of indios--indigineous peoples from the territories of the Spanish empire--were enslaved and relocated throughtout the Iberian world. Although various laws and decrees outlawed indio enslavement, several loopholes allowed the practi…