Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain
Nancy E. van Deusen is Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of Between the Sacred and the Worldly: The Institutional and Cultural Practice of Recogimiento in Colonial Lima and The Souls of Purgatory: The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesús.
Crossing the Atlantic and Entering Households
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Published:April 2015
This chapter considers how and why indios, many of them children, became commodities and crossed the Atlantic to Castile; how we can access their voices in documents; and how, by the time that slaves told their tales of forced migration to the courts, they already embodied the slave-raiding practices and forced inter-American diasporas experienced by previous generations. It also examines the cultural placement of slaves into the households of their Castilian masters, arguing that the label indio acquired meaning in relation to masters with their own sets of expectations and in relation to other members of the household, other people...
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