Resumen

CIARAMITARO, Fernando  y  CALDERON FERNANDEZ, Andrés. Negroes and mulattoes: the slow extinction of slavery in the convents of New Spain. Travesía (San Miguel de Tucumán) [online]. 2019, vol.21, n.2, pp.83-111. ISSN 2314-2707.

Through notarial and census sources, this paper examines feminine slavery in convents, a theme neglegibly explored in Iberoamerican historiography. The presence and disappearance, during the eighteenth century, of slaves in the convent of la Encarnación in Mexico City is studied from donations, sale & purchases, and testamentary manumissions. The conventual space, its slavery, economy and the means used by nuns to sell, receive in donation, free or emancipate their slaves are examined, with attention to the rhetorical arguments of the notarial documentation and Spanish legal tradition.

Palabras clave : Slavery; Convent of la Encarnación; Mexico City; Notarial documentation; Negroes and mulattoes.

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