Presentación: servidumbre, esclavitud y libertad

Raquel Gil Montero

doi:10.19137/pys-2020-270201

Raquel Gil Montero CONICET - Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani, Universidad de Buenos Aires http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4538-0532

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19137/pys-2020-270201

Keywords:

Servitude, slavery, freedom

Abstract

The dossier we published in this issue posed a question: Is it possible to draw a clear line between slavery and servitude? The significant historiography that has been developed since the 1980s to the present on these issues seems to suggest that it is not possible, that there is an enormous variety of forms of labor relations that have been addressed on the basis of these concepts, which sometimes include common or very similar aspects. In Americanist historiography, slavery and servitude have been suggestively related in some specific spaces, such as those of the border, particularly in the cases of the indigenous people enslaved in the so-called "just war". However, there was much less dialogue between studies on the labor relations of the Hispanic colonial indigenous heartland (which in South America refers to the Andes) and those on slavery in the demographic center of Lusitanian America. The dossier we proposed seeks to contribute to this debate, based on different case studies - coming from less explored geographical areas - that analyze labor relations involving coercion, forced labor or slavery. It seeks to put into dialogue studies conceived from the concrete practices of labor relations, the presence of aspects that denote the influence of customary law, the characterization of people that were enslaved or subject to servitude and its ambiguities, and the modalities of recruitment.

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Author Biography

Raquel Gil Montero, CONICET - Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Doctora en Historia por la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Investigadora Independiente de CONICET. Fue becaria de la fundación John Simon Guggenheim, de la fundación Alexander von Humboldt y Thyssen, de la Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, de la María Elena Cassiet (John Carter Brown Library). Ha recibido subsidios para la investigación de la Fundación Gerda Henkel, de la National Geographic, Fundación Bilbao Viscaya, Carolina, Antorchas, del CONICET y de la Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica. Actualmente es Vicepresidenta de la Asociación Argentina de Investigadores en Historia e integrante del Comité Ejecutivo del Encuentro Permanente de Asociaciones Científicas. Fue integrante electa del Consejo Directivo del Instituto Superior de Estudios Sociales. Coordinadora de la Comisión Científica de Demografía Histórica de la Asociación de Estudios de la Población Argentina. Integrante del Panel Científico de Demografía Histórica de la IUSSP (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population). Ha participado y participa en diferentes instancias de evaluación institucional, de proyectos, y de becarios, de investigadores. Actualmente integra la Comisión de Convocatorias Especiales de CONICET. Su investigación se centra en las poblaciones indígenas de los Andes Centro Meridionales, la minería colonial, las migraciones y el mundo del trabajo indígena.

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