Slave Subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds

(16th-20th Centuries)
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-68141-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

Reihe: Studies in Global Slavery

The Iberian world played a key role in the global trade of enslaved people from the 15th century onwards. Scholars of Iberian forms of slavery face challenges accessing the subjectivity of the enslaved, given the scarcity of autobiographical sources. This book offers a compelling example of innovative methodologies that draw on alternative archives and documents, such as inquisitorial and trial records, to examine enslaved individuals' and collective subjectivities under Iberian political dominion. It explores themes such as race, gender, labour, social mobility and emancipation, religion, and politics, shedding light on the lived experiences of those enslaved in the Iberian world from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic.

Contributors are: Magdalena Candioti, Robson Pedroso Costa, Rômulo da Silva Ehalt, James Fujitani, Michel Kabalan, Silvia Lara, Marta Macedo, Hebe Mattos, Michelle McKinley, Sophia Blea Nuñez, Fernanda Pinheiro, João José Reis, Patricia Faria de Souza, Lisa Surwillo, Miguel Valerio and Lisa Voigt.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barreto Xavier, Ângela

Nogueira da Silva, Cristina

Cahen, Michel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Prologue: Understanding the Voice of the Enslaved in the Iberian World

João José Reis

Introduction: Slave Subjectivities—Studying Absences?

Ângela Barreto Xavier, Cristina Nogueira da Silva, and Michel Cahen

Part 1: Slave Subjectivities in Asia

1 ‘Where All Yndios Are Free’

Identity, Resistance, and Dissonant Perceptions about the Enslavement of Japanese in the Iberian World (16th–17th Centuries)

Rômulo da Silva Ehalt

2 The Concubine Slaves of the Portuguese in the China Sea Region

James Fujitani

3 From Asia to Lisbon

Fragments of Lives and Subjectivities of the Enslaved (16th–17th Centuries)

Patricia Souza de Faria

Part 2: Subjectivities in the Context of Labour and Religion

4 Work and Identity in the Case of Elena/o de Céspedes

Sophia Blea Nuñez

5 “Pública Notícia”

Black Brotherhoods and Corporate Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century Brazil

Lisa Voigt

6 Creolizing Death

Afro-Catholic Deathways in the Early Modern Iberian World

Miguel A. Valerio

7 Black Masters

A Study on Slave-Owning Slaves, 1790–1850, Pernambuco, Brazil

Robson Pedrosa Costa

8 The Qur'an in My Notebook

Slavery, Revolt and the Teaching of Arabic in the 1830s Bahia, Brazil

Michel Kabalan

Part 3: Social Mobility and Emancipation

9 Central African Echoes in the Wilds of Pernambuco, Brazil, in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century)

Silvia Hunold Lara

10 Henrique Dias and the Portuguese Empire: Narrative, Subjectivity and Memory

Hebe Mattos

11 Against ‘Unjust Captivity’

Lisbon’s Brotherhoods of Black and ‘Pardo’ Men’s Litigious Action and the Struggle for the End of Slavery in the Kingdom of Portugal

Fernanda Domingos Pinheiro

12 Negotiating Emancipation and Social Mobility

Crosscrossed Biographies of Africans and Afrodescendants in the Río de la Plata (1810–1840)

Magdalena Candioti

13 Petitioning from the Body: Cuba and Spain in 1873

Lisa Surwillo

14 Displacement, Work and Confinement: Plantation Workers in São Tomé

Marta Macedo

Postface: Enslavement, Race, Liberty and Emotion

Michelle A. McKinley

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ângela Barreto Xavier is a Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. She has widely published on issues relating with questions of power and domination and the agency and subjectivities of subaltern people in the context of the Portuguese early-modern empire.
Cristina Nogueira da Silva is Professor at the Law School of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and researcher at its research center, CEDIS. Her main research areas are classical liberalism and citizenship in the nineteenth century, the history of the legal personal status in the Portuguese overseas territories, as well as the way legal concepts and institutions were used by enslaved and free subaltern people in the context of the Portuguese contemporary empire.
Michel Cahen is a political historian of modern colonial Portugal and contemporary Portuguese-speaking Africa. He is emeritus CNRS Senior Researcher at the Centre ‘Les Afriques dans le monde’ (Sciences Po Bordeaux). His main interests relate to Marxism and nationalism, identity and citizenship, political identity at the margins, coloniality and globalisation.