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This article explores the struggle for autonomy by slaves as they litigated against their masters for access to an approved "married life." While they managed successes, the power structures of colonial society privileged masters' access to slaves over Catholic marriage norms.
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Moving beyond early research that has focused on access to marriage, this study illuminates the benefits and limits of the married life for slaves in Latin America. This article, likewise, highlights the legal activity of slaves and the shortcomings of a legal system that fell short of enforcing canon law.
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This page is a summary of: ‘It is Unjust for the Law of Marriage to be Broken by the Law of Slavery’: Married Slaves and their Masters in Early Colonial Lima, Slavery and Abolition, September 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/0144039x.2013.834165.
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