Fractional Freedoms Slavery Intimacy And Legal Mobilization In Colonial Lima 16001700 Michelle A Mckinley by Michelle A. Mckinley 9781107168985, 1107168988 instant download after payment.

Fractional Freedoms explores how thousands of slaves in colonial Peru
were able to secure their freedom, keep their families intact, negotiate
lower self- purchase prices, and arrange transfers of ownership by fi ling
legal claims. Through extensive archival research, Michelle McKinley
excavates the experiences of enslaved women whose historical footprint
is barely visible in the offi cial record. She complicates the way we
think about life under slavery and demonstrates the degree to which
slaves were able to exercise their own agency, despite being caught up
in the Atlantic slave trade. Enslaved women are situated as legal actors
who had overlapping identities as wives, mothers, mistresses, wetnurses
and day- wage domestics, and these experiences within the urban
working environment are shown to condition their identities as slaves.
Although the outcomes of their lawsuits varied, Fractional Freedoms
demonstrates how enslaved women used channels of affection and intimacy
to press for liberty and prevent the generational transmission of
enslavement to their children.