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Fronteras de la Historia

Print version ISSN 2027-4688On-line version ISSN 2539-4711

Abstract

CAMACHO, DINA. Paid Subordination and Economic Autonomy: Modalities of Work Specialization of Africans and their Descendants in the City of La Plata, 17th century. Front. hist. [online]. 2020, vol.25, n.2, pp.208-235. ISSN 2027-4688.  https://doi.org/10.22380/20274688.823.

The order of the labor force advanced by Francisco de Toledo for the Viceroyalty of Peru (1574) imposed for the Africans and their free descendants the obligation to settle with known masters under remunerated subordination with the objective of limiting their participation in economic activities outside the regulatory framework of the master and the kingdom. The review on a range of Public Scriptures intensively produced by these subjects in the city of La Plata during the seventeenth century, allows to recognize that apprenticeship, expertise of a craft and administration of commercial companies related to property leases and tents, helped to create an economic autonomy that contributes to stand public and juridically as an honorific person, diversifying, in such a way, the legal imaginaries that based their social value.

Keywords : legal imaginaries; paid subordination; economic specialization; honor; Africans and their free descendants.

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