What is it about?
This chapter delves into different understandings concerning the legal status and the labor arrangement between three Japanese men and those who claimed ownership over them.
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Why is it important?
This chapter sheds light on the impact the idea of slavery had on various peoples in the early modern period by focusing on the cases of Japanese men in Spain, Macau and Mexico.
Perspectives
The ideas presented here offer a new approach to slavery as an idea and how it impacted the relationships established between colonial actors and other peoples in the Iberian empires.
Rômulo da Silva Ehalt
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften
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This page is a summary of: ‘Where All Yndios Are Free’, December 2023, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004687158_004.
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