Bound lives : Africans, Indians, and the making of race in colonial Peru / Rachel Sarah O'Toole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Toole, Rachel Sarah.

Series:

Pitt Latin American series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Peru--Government relations.

Indians of South America.

Colonies.

Administration.

International relations.

Colonization.

Caste.

History.

Slavery.

Africans.

Peru.

Indians of South America--Colonization--Peru.

Indians of South America--Colonization.

Africans--Peru--Government relations.

Africans--Colonization--Peru.

Slavery--Peru--History.

Caste--Peru--History.

Peru--Colonization.

Peru--Foreign relations--Spain.

Spain--Foreign relations--Peru.

Spain.

Spain--Colonies--America--Administration.

America.

Physical Description:

xii, 257 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2012]

Summary:

Bound Lives chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah O'Toole examines how Andeans and Africans negotiated and employed casta and, in doing so, constructed these racial categories.

Royal and vice regal authorities separated "Indians" from "blacks" by defining each according to specific labor demands. Casta categories did the work of race, yet not all casta categories were uniformly applied since Andeans, Africans, and their descendants were bound by their locations within, colonialism and slavery.

The secular colonial legal system clearly favored indigenous populations. Andeans were afforded greater protections as native vassals, whereas Africans were often subject to the judgments of local slaveholding authorities. Africans claimed new kinships to protect themselves in disputes with their captors and countered slaveholders' claims on their time and labor by invoking customary practices.

Bound Lives highlights the tenuous interactions of colonial authorities, indigenous communities, and enslaved populations and shows how the interplay between colonial law and daily practice shaped the nature of colonialism and slavery. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Between Black and Indian: Labor Demands and the Crown's Casta 17

Chapter 2 Working Slavery's Value, Making Diaspora Kinships 35

Chapter 3 Acting as a Legal Indian: Natural Vassals and Worrisome Natives 64

Chapter 4 Market Exchanges and Meeting the Indians Elsewhere 88

Chapter 5 Justice within Slavery 122.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822961932

0822961938

OCLC:

754713689