The Colonization of the New World and its Legal Principles: The debate on indigenous slavery in the Portuguese and Spanish Americas

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  • Ludmila Gomides Freitas Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15175/1984-2503-20157302

Keywords:

Slavery, indigenous peoples, theological-legal ideas

Abstract

Slavery was imposed and molded to unprecedented proportions during the colonization of the New World. However, while holding Africans captive did not perturb the European conscience, the slavery of indigenous peoples instead generated intense debate. The aim of this article is to outline the reasons why blacks and indigenous people were legally segregated in their subjection to colonial law. In the case of the indigenous peoples, we analyze the controversy surrounding their release and captivity by focusing on the ideas of the jurists and theologians who came to legally found the colonial domains in the Americas in the sixteenth century, through their establishment of the legal status of the inhabitants of these territories.

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Author Biography

Ludmila Gomides Freitas, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Possui bacharelado em História (2001) e mestrado em História Cultural (2006) pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Doutorou-se em 2014 em História Social pela Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU).Tem experiência na área de História, com ênfase em História Moderna e História do Brasil Colonial, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: história da Companhia de Jesus, pensamento político-teológico jesuítico, Padre Antônio Vieira, história indígena, política e legislação indigenista na América portuguesa. Atualmente faz pós-doutoramento em Filosofia na Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU).

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Published

2015-10-06

How to Cite

Freitas, L. G. (2015). The Colonization of the New World and its Legal Principles: The debate on indigenous slavery in the Portuguese and Spanish Americas. Passages: International Review of Political History and Legal Culture, 7(3), 456-472. https://doi.org/10.15175/1984-2503-20157302

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Vol. 7 - No. 3 - Setembro a Dezembro (2015)

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