Fractional Freedoms. Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700, Paperback

How could enslaved women assert legal claims to personhood, wages, and virtue when the law regarded them as mere property? Fractional Freedoms tells the story of enslaved legal actors within the landscape of Hispanic urban slavery, focussing on women who were socially disadvantaged, economically active and extremely litigious.