Reviewing how much (Vast) early American content I posted on Twitter back in the day and reviving that practice. Michelle McKinley’s brilliant new article in the Oct 24 WMQ, putting Mediterranean and Atlantic slaveries in conversation, focuses on “contingent liberty.” 1/ #VastEarlyAmericas - ThreadSky

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kawulf.bsky.social • 109 days ago

Reviewing how much (Vast) early American content I posted on Twitter back in the day and reviving that practice. Michelle McKinley’s brilliant new article in the Oct 24 WMQ, putting Mediterranean and Atlantic slaveries in conversation, focuses on “contingent liberty.” 1/ #VastEarlyAmericas

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kawulf.bsky.social•109 days ago

McKinley analyzes two cases in Andalusia of contract disputes around self-purchase --and more broadly shows us more (in a rich emerging literature here) about the distinctions among the legal regimes of the British, French, and Spanish empires regarding slavery– and freedom. A key point: 2/

kawulf.bsky.social•109 days ago

The first case of Francisca Maria in Granada shows that "conditional" status caught in the machinery of the Inquisition. Listed as property when the woman who was her enslaver was imprisoned by the authorities, thus prompting her suit, she asserted that she was in the process of self-purchase. 3/

kawulf.bsky.social•109 days ago

A key dynamic- Francisca Maria like 25% of enslaved people in the Sevillian market, was a Berber from the Mediterranean trade. Another key dynamic here is the pawning of freedom papers - another aspect of the financialization of slavery. 4/

kawulf.bsky.social•109 days ago

Last, if you know McKinley’s work you know how essential is her book _Fractional Freedoms (Cambridge UP 2016). Great scholarship. Hard won research. 5//

bengidley.bsky.social•107 days ago

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