Enslaved women and the use of the partus sequitur ventrem at courts: inscribing maternal ancestry and intervening in the gender-racialized archive in colonial Chile
In this paper I describe and analyze the implications and uses of the legal principle partus sequitur ventrem through two lawsuits for the recognition of freedom by enslaved women of calidad mulata and/or zamba. They disputed the slave version of their origin by presenting evidence to register a new...
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ISHiR/CONICET
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://web3.rosario-conicet.gov.ar/ojs/index.php/revistaISHIR/article/view/1477 |
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| Sumario: | In this paper I describe and analyze the implications and uses of the legal principle partus sequitur ventrem through two lawsuits for the recognition of freedom by enslaved women of calidad mulata and/or zamba. They disputed the slave version of their origin by presenting evidence to register a new maternal ancestry, one from a free india. I am interested in exploring how they created their own archive and juxtaposed to the judicial file that described them and, to a certain extent, determined them. At the time of demanding the recognition of freedom, they had to enter and exit gender-racialized markers that were strongly implicated in the very constitution of slavery. |
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