INSTITUTO "DR. E.RAVIGNANI"   24160
INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA ARGENTINA Y AMERICANA "DR. EMILIO RAVIGNANI"
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
?Slavery on trial: laws and judicial disputes regarding slavery in Buenos Aires, 1810-1860?
Autor/es:
MAGDALENA CANDIOTI
Lugar:
Brisbane
Reunión:
Seminario; Crime and Justice Research Centre Seminar; 2015
Institución organizadora:
Crime and Justice Research Centre, School of Justice, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
Resumen:
In 1810 when a revolution against Spanish authorities broke out in the Río de la Plata, 20% of the population of the capital, Buenos Aires, were black slaves. Did the revolution affect their lives? Did it improve their chances to be free? This seminar focuses on the changes of laws regulating slavery and emancipation in post-colonial Buenos Aires, as well as on the strategies the enslaved black population displayed in judicial courts in order to enforce their formal rights or to conquer new ones. Associate Professor Candioti will examine the traces of their discourses about freedom, patriotism, and slavery and also discuss whether these individual judicial disputes can be thought as contestations to the slavery institution itself or not and why.Professor Candioti sustains that it is important to understand together, how enlightened and revolutionary ideas inspired changes in the ?moral sensibility? towards slavery, how it was translated or not in new laws, how enslaved men and women experienced and understood this ideals and laws and if they could use the revolutionary context and rhetoric to improve their situation. Far from establishing a causal link among elites? and black population?s imaginaries we analyse how both interacted and moulded mutually in courts, until the age of abolition.