Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain

by Nancy E. van Deusen

Book Overview

In the sixteenth century hundreds of thousands of indios--indigenous peoples from the territories of the Spanish empire--were enslaved and relocated throughout the Iberian world. Although various laws and decrees outlawed indio enslavement, several loopholes allowed the practice to continue. In Global Indios Nancy E. van Deusen documents the more than one hundred lawsuits between 1530 and 1585 that indio slaves living in Castile brought to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822358581
• ISBN13: 9780822358589
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"