The Legal Framework of Slavery in the Dutch Republic and Its Colonies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

van der Velden, Bastiaan D.

Series:

Slavery and Emancipation Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (623 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

This study centers on the Dutch Republic, where Roman law--applied alongside contemporary legislation--was used to regulate the lives of enslaved individuals across its territories, albeit in a highly selective manner.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Abbreviations

Translations of Legal Terminology

1 Introduction

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Law as a Fundamental Component in the Enforcement of Slavery

1.3 A Definition of Slavery within the Context of Private Law

1.4 The Legal Status of a Person

1.5 The Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of Slavery

1.6 Roman Law as a Source of Law in the Regulation of Slavery

1.6.1 Roman Law

1.6.2 The Accursian Glosses and the Corpus Iuris Civilis

1.6.3 Commentators

1.7 The Reception of Roman Law in the Dutch Republic

1.7.1 Rooms Hollands Recht

1.7.2 Roman Law in the Roman-Dutch Law Overseas

1.8 Received Law and Slavery

1.9 Reception or Legal Transplant of Roman Law

1.10 Final Remarks

2 "All Men are Free, and None are Slaves"

2.1 Refusing a State to Decide as to Whether Slavery Exists

2.2 Simon and the Great Council for the Netherlands in Malines, 1531-32

2.3 Slavery Disappeared in the Republic

2.4 Enslaved Prisoners of War in the Republic

2.5 Enslaved People Arriving in Middelburg, 1596

2.6 Utility and Theology as Principles for the Foundation of Slavery

2.7 The Amsterdam Coustumen of 1644

2.8 The Transportation of Enslaved People to Holland

2.9 Runaway Property or a Free Person on Dutch Soil (1730s)

2.10 Henricus N. Herbert and His Thesis De Servis (1761)

2.11 The Status of Enslaved People Who Have Been in the Netherlands,1770-76

2.12 The Blondin Family and the Widow T. W. van Rees, 1776

2.13 Andries, 1774-75

2.14 The States-General and the Cases of Blondin and Sabina, and of Andries

2.15 The Placaat "Omtrent de Vrijheid der Neger- en andere Slaaven" of 1776

2.16 Cupido, Betje, and Mimi

and Haguerts, the Plakaat of 1776 in Practice.

2.17.1 The 1776 Plakaat and Legal Science

2.17.2 The 1776 Plakaat in the VOC Territories

2.17.3 The Papers of Freedom of Caatje

2.17.4 Blondin and His Family

2.18.1 The End of the VOC and WIC

2.18.2 Christiaan van der Vaart, 1811

2.19 Final Remarks

3 Conflict of Laws in the Republic and Slavery

3.1 Conflict of Laws

3.2 Domicile and Conflict of Laws

3.3 Final Remarks

4 Slavery in the Republic of the Seven Provinces

4.1 Macro Description of the Legal System

4.1.1 The Legal Issues of Slavery

4.2.1 The Legal Definition of Slavery

4.3.1 Legal Grounds to Enslave People

4.3.2 Birth as the Origin of Slavery

4.3.3 Enslaved People as Prisoners of War

4.3.4 The Enslaved Status in a Colony and Conflict of Laws

4.3.5 Illegal Selling into Slavery

4.4 The Exercise of the Powers Attached to the Right of Ownership

4.4.1 Ownership is Foundational to Slavery

4.4.1.1 Buying, Selling, or Transferring a Person

4.4.1.2 Specific Clauses in Sales Contracts

4.4.1.3 Sale of Runaway Enslaved Individuals

4.4.1.4 Gift

4.4.1.5 Prenuptial Agreements

4.4.2.1 Using a Person

4.4.3.1 Managing the Use of a Person

4.4.3.2 Power of Attorney

4.4.4.1 Profiting from the Use of a Person

4.4.4.2 Asiento Sale on Curaçao

4.4.4.3 "Negotiatie fonds"

4.4.4.4 Freight Charges

4.4.4.5 Insurance of Slave Ships

4.4.4.6 Bodemerij

4.4.4.7 Jettison

4.4.4.8 The Plakaat of the States-General, "to Encourage the Negro Trade" of 1789

4.4.4.9 Bills of Exchange

4.4.5 Transferring a Person to an Heir or Successor

4.5.1 Disposal, Mistreatment, or Neglect of a Person

4.5.2 Private Penalties and Mistreatment of a Person

4.6 Abstract Manifestations of Control of a Person

4.6.1 Withholding Identity Documents to a Person

4.6.2 To Restrict the Free Movement of a Person.

4.6.3 To Restrict a Person's Access to State Authorities

4.6.4.1 To Restrict a Person's Access to Legal Processes

4.6.4.2 Prohibition to Make a Will

4.6.4.3 Parental Power

4.6.5 Forging a Person in a New Identity

4.7 Peculium

4.8.1 Expropriation

4.9.1 Distinction between Slavery and "Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery"

4.9.2 Serfdom

4.10.1 End of Ownership and Manumission

4.10.2 Redeeming from Slavery

4.11 Legal Effects of Manumission

4.11.1 Inheritance Law after Manumission

4.12 Tort

4.13 Final Remarks

5 Slavery and Law in Africa and During the Middle Passage

5.1 Some Background on the Middle Passage

5.2 The Legal Definition of Slavery

5.2.2 The Right of Ownership in Roman-Dutch Law

5.3.1 Legal Grounds to Enslave People

5.3.2 Birth as the Origin of Slavery

5.3.3 Kakasa Acostrie cs., 1749

5.4 The Exercise of the Powers Attached to the Right of Ownership

5.4.1.1 Buying, Selling, or Transferring a Person

5.4.1.2 The "Quality" of Enslaved People

5.4.1.3 Transfer of Risk

5.4.1.4 Branding

5.4.2.1 Using a Person

5.4.3.1 Managing the Use of a Person

5.4.4.1 Profiting from the Use of a Person

5.4.5.1 Transferring a Person to an Heir or Successor

5.5.1 Disposal, Mistreatment, or Neglect of a Person

5.5.2 Private Penalties

5.6 Abstract Manifestations of Control of a Person

5.6.1 Withholding Identity Documents to a Person

5.6.2 To Restrict the Free Movement of a Person

5.6.3 To Restrict a Person's Access to State Authorities

5.6.4 Forging a Person in a New Identity

5.7 Final Remarks

6 Slavery in Kaap de Goede Hoop

6.1 Macro Description of De Kaap

6.2.1 The Legal Definition of Slavery

6.2.2 The Right of Ownership in Roman-Dutch Law in De Kaap

6.3.1 Legal Grounds to Enslave People

6.3.2 Birth as the Origin of Slavery.

6.3.3 Privateering and Expropriation

6.4 Exercise of the Powers Attached to the Right of Ownership

6.4.1.1 Buying, Selling, or Transferring a Person

6.4.1.2 Defects

6.4.1.3 Expressed Conditions in the Contract or Will

6.4.1.4 Sale of a Family

6.4.1.5 Auction

6.4.1.6 Sale on Credit

6.4.1.7 Exchange or Swapping

6.4.1.8 Sale of Fugitives

6.4.1.9 Sale of People as Part of Real Estate (Cadastral Sales)

6.4.1.10 Bartering

6.4.1.11 Donation of Enslaved Individuals

6.4.1.12 Dowry

6.4.1.13 Stealing and Corruption

6.4.2.1 Using a Person

6.4.3.1 Managing the Use of a Person

6.4.3.2 Loan

6.4.4.1 Profiting from the Use of a Person

6.4.4.2 Collateral

6.4.4.3 Mortgage

6.4.5.1 Transferring a Person to an Heir or Successor

6.4.5.2 Fideicommis

6.5.1 Disposal, Neglect, or Sexual Abuse of a Person

6.5.2 Private Penalties &amp

Mistreatment of a Person

6.6 Abstract Manifestations of Control of a Person

6.6.1 Withholding Identity Documents to a Person

6.6.2 To Restrict Free Movement of a Person

6.6.3 To Restrict a Person's Access to State Authorities

6.6.4 To Restrict a Person's Access to Legal Processes

6.6.5.1 Forge a Person in a New Identity

6.6.5.2 Names

6.6.6 Forcing a Person into Marriage

6.7 Peculium

6.8.1 Expropriation

6.8.2 Expropriation after an Illegal Sale

6.8.3 Expropriation after Criminal Offenses

6.8.4 Temporary Use of Enslaved People

6.9 Distinction between Slavery and "Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery"

6.9.1 Indenture of Khoikhoi and San

6.9.2 Criminal Punishment and Imprisonment

6.10.1 End of Ownership (Manumission)

6.10.2 Role of the Raad and Governor in the Manumission Process

6.10.3 Manumission by Last Will

6.10.4 Conditions

6.10.5 Manumission on Account of Long Services.

6.10.6 Children of Enslaved Women and Dutch Fathers

6.10.7 Manumission for Payment

6.10.8 Manumission after the Exchange of a Person

6.10.9 Manumission after Cooperating in Solving Criminal Affairs

6.11 Legal Effects of Manumission

6.12.1 Tort by an Enslaved Person

6.12.2 Enslaved Individuals as Victims of Tortious Acts

6.13 Local Laws and Slavenreglementen

6.14 Penal Law and Enslaved People in De Kaap

6.15 End of Dutch Occupation

6.15.1 Common Law in De Kaap

6.15.2 Abolition of Slavery in De Kaap

6.16 Final Remarks

7 Slavery on Curaçao

7.1 Macro Description of Curaçao

7.2.1 The Legal Definition of Slavery

7.2.2 The Right of Ownership

7.3.1 Legal Grounds to Enslave People

7.3.2 Birth as the Origin of Slavery

7.3.3 Expropriation

7.4 The Exercise of the Powers Attached to the Right of Ownership

7.4.1.1 Buying, Selling, or Transferring a Person

7.4.1.2 Asiento Sale on Curaçao

7.4.1.3 Sale of Enslaved People in Curaçao

7.4.1.4 Illegal Sales

7.4.1.5 Bartering

7.4.2 Using a Person

7.4.3 Managing the Use of a Person

7.4.4.1 Profiting from the Use of a Person

7.4.4.2 Tax

7.4.5.1 Transferring a Person to an Heir or Successor

7.5.1 Disposal, Mistreatment, or Neglect of a Person

7.5.2 Private Penalties and Mistreatment of a Person

7.6 Abstract Manifestations of Control of a Person

7.6.1.1 Withholding Identity Documents to a Person

7.6.1.2 Human Branding

7.6.2 To Restrict Free Movement of a Person

7.6.3 To Restrict a Person's Access to State Authorities

7.6.4 To Restrict a Person's Access to Legal Processes

7.6.5.1 Forging a Person in a New Identity

7.6.5.2 Marriages of Enslaved People on Curaçao

7.7 Peculium

7.8 Expropriation

7.9 Distinction between Slavery and "Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery".

7.10.1 End of Ownership (Manumission).

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ISBN:

1-04-083828-6