Mastering the Law: Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire

by Ricardo Raúl Salazar Rey

Explores the legal relationships of enslaved people and their descendants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spanish America

Atlantic slavery can be overwhelming in its immensity and brutality, as it involved more than 15 million souls forcibly displaced by European imperialism and consumed in building the global economy. Mastering the Law: Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire lays out...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817320660
• ISBN13: 9780817320669
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"