Interpretations of Slavery: The Slave Status in the Americas
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Recent interpretations of slavery in the United States suggest that we may be entering a new phase of scholarship on slavery as new approaches and categories are introduced by historians, and as anthropologists and sociologists again take up the study of an institution that was of such concern to their nineteenth century predecessors.
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Enslaved persons held a dual legal identity-simultaneously persons and things in the eyes of the law.
“Enslaved persons held a dual legal identity -simultaneously persons and things in the eyes of the law.”
From Collapsing the Boundaries Between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery Beyond the Transatlantic Frame (2020) · cites this paper as Sio 1965, p 299
In Roman law, slavery was recognised as an element of ius gentium (the laws of man) that breached ius naturale (the laws of nature) because all men were equal under law.
“In Roman law, this was captured in the recognition of slavery as an element of ius gentium (the laws of man) that breached ius naturale (the laws of nature) because all men were equal under law.”
From Collapsing the Boundaries Between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery Beyond the Transatlantic Frame (2020) · cites this paper as Sio 1965, p 293
The premise of the Roman law formulation was that those enslaved were also 'men' and equals in the law of nature.
“The premise of this formulation being that those enslaved were also ' men ' and equals in the law of nature -(Sio 1965, p 293).”
From Collapsing the Boundaries Between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery Beyond the Transatlantic Frame (2020) · cites this paper as Sio 1965, p 293
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“The premise of this formulation being that those enslaved were also ‘men’ and equals in the law of nature—(Sio 1965, p 293). meeting the threshold of slavery is therefore considered ‘appropriate exploitation’.27 Just as international and domestic legal frameworks recognise various forms of…”
Background
- Authors
- Sio, A. A.
- Affiliations
- Colgate University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sio, Arnold A.
- Venue
- Comparative Studies in Society and History
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1965-04
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 289-308
- ISSN
- 0010-4175 (ISSN-L)
- 1475-2999
- OpenAlex
- W2098615720
- Cited by
- 27
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2022: 1 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 20.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Comparative Studies in Society and History (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › History of Colonial Brazil
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
- Keywords
- slavery, slave status, slavery in the Americas, comparative slavery, historiography of slavery, anthropology of slavery
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