Claims to Distinction: Invoking Sub-Saharian African Origins in Sixteenth-Century Valencia

• Autores: Thomas Franke
• Localización: La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures & Cultures, ISSN 0193-3892, Vol. 52, Nº 1, 2023, págs. 259-277
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1353/cor.2023.a961716
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• Resumen

  • In the early sixteenth century, Valencia's Batle General was closely involved with the city's trade in enslaved black (negre) captives from throughout sub-Saharan West Africa, North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, and India. In its capacity as a regulator of the city's slave trade and as a court that investigated individuals suspected of being fugitive captives, the Batle General recorded hundreds of interrogations of enslaved, free, and fugitive black Valencians between 1502 and 1530. In this article I will outline two narratives of Blackness that emerge from analyzing these interrogations.

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