INVESTIGADORES
CANDIOTI Magdalena
artículos
Título:
Free Womb Law, Legal asynchronies and Migrations: suing for an enslaved woman?s child in nineteenth century Rio de la Plata
Autor/es:
CANDIOTI, MAGDALENA
Revista:
The Americas
Editorial:
Cambridge University Press
Referencias:
Año: 2020
ISSN:
0003-1615
Resumen:
This essay examines the (re)configuration of jurisdictions between future Argentina and Uruguay and the legal asynchronies on abolitionist policies it produce. It is an important question for multiple reasons. First, because the Free Womb law ?one of the main gradual abolitionist laws, dictated by the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata in 1813- spawned multiple legal battles and legal experts? debates that proved to be central to both the way slavery ended in the region and the way freedmen?s lives were regulated. Second, because anti-slavery policies were used in the images those new nations built of themselves and each other. Third, because the trajectories and strategies of enslaved persons living in nineteenth century Rio de la Plata were shaped by forced and voluntary migrations between those spaces ruled by different legal frames.
