Early Justifications of Indigenous and African Slavery in Colonial Latin America

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract This chapter inquires international law’s engagement with regard to Indigenous and African slavery in the Americas throughout the 16th century. First, it recalls that the initial set of laws governing slavery and forced labor in the Iberian American colonies drew from existing European medieval rules and institutions. Second, it explores the early debates that took place with regard to the morality and/or legality of exploitative practices targeting Indigenous Peoples and sub-Saharan Africans. The latter were considered human beings who, although barbarians, were endowed with reason and natural freedom, the loss of which could only be the consequence of human institutions and forms of interaction introduced by the law of nations (ius gentium), such as commerce and war. The chapter examines how these ideas and arguments were articulated together in order to subjugate native peoples in the Americas and in Angola, the region mostly affected by the transatlantic slave trade in the 17th century.
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Authors Anne-Charlotte Martineau
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197661062.013.0072
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197661062.013.0072
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