Presentation: Servitude, slavery and freedom
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Servitude, slavery, freedomAbstract
The dossier we published in this issue posed a question: Is it possible to draw a clear line between slavery and servitude? The significant historiography that has been developed since the 1980s to the present on these issues seems to suggest that it is not possible, that there is an enormous variety of forms of labor relations that have been addressed on the basis of these concepts, which sometimes include common or very similar aspects. In Americanist historiography, slavery and servitude have been suggestively related in some specific spaces, such as those of the border, particularly in the cases of the indigenous people enslaved in the so-called "just war". However, there was much less dialogue between studies on the labor relations of the Hispanic colonial indigenous heartland (which in South America refers to the Andes) and those on slavery in the demographic center of Lusitanian America. The dossier we proposed seeks to contribute to this debate, based on different case studies - coming from less explored geographical areas - that analyze labor relations involving coercion, forced labor or slavery. It seeks to put into dialogue studies conceived from the concrete practices of labor relations, the presence of aspects that denote the influence of customary law, the characterization of people that were enslaved or subject to servitude and its ambiguities, and the modalities of recruitment.Downloads
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