Slavery and the Law: the genesis and shaping of the legal tradition Castilian and Portuguese on black slavery in America, 16th - 18th century

Author(s)

Waldomiro Lourenço da Silva Junior

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2009-09-21

Examining board members

Rafael de Bivar Marquese; Silvia Hunold Lara; Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron

• Advisor: Rafael de Bivar Marquese

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the genesis of the legal tradition on African slavery in the Castilian and Portuguese Americas and its configuration from the beginning of XVIth century to the first half of XVIIIth century, a period when the legal culture of the ius commune prevailed. The hypothesis is that by the relationship between legislative process and social practice a particular Iberian slave law mode of production took shape. Due the great diversity of subjects approached by this legislation, the dissertation makes a thematic selection appropriate to a M.A. Regarding its importance to the dynamics of Iberian American slave regimes, the themes elected to the inquiry were the manumissions and the politics of controlling slave resistance. (AU)