From the department of Historical Regimes of Normativity at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

“No era razón traerme hecho esclavo”. Pleitos por la libertad de indígenas americanos en la España del siglo XVI

Entre 1542 y 1543 la corona española aprobó las Leyes Nuevas un conjunto de disposiciones que prohibían esclavizar a los indígenas americanos Estas leyes tuvieron efecto no solo en América sino también en España donde a mediados del siglo XVI residían varios miles de indígenas esclavizados algunos de los cuales decidieron acudir a los tribunales para luchar legalmente por su libertad La presente nota estudia este tipo de pleitos a partir de un caso de estudio localizado en el Archivo de Indias Sevilla

Citations for the uninitiated

Early modern Jesuit colleges were centers of normative knowledge production Their professors of theology canon law and casuistry left extensive notes on the moral challenges met by missionaries all over Asia However for the contemporary scholar understanding these puzzling notes can be challenging What happens when one comes across a citation that seems odd And how about when it takes almost a decade to solve one single citation

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