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... in the city afterward. 68 A group of legal experts disputed these arguments and, taking sides “with the Courts of the Island and with the Síndicos,” asserted that the reglamento was, in fact, “the only current law on the matter.” 72 To the notion that slavery was a totalizing status, they responded...

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