Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain

Author/Contributor(s):	Van Deusen, Nancy E
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	05/04/2015
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Nancy van Deusen examines over one hundred lawsuits that indio slaves brought to the Spanish court in the mid-sixteenth century to gain their freedom. The category indio was largely constructed during these lawsuits, and van Deusen emphasizes the need to situate colonial indigenous subjects and slavery in a global context.