(1/4) Global Indios is a magnificent study which documents more than 100 lawsuits Indigenous enslaved people living in Castile brought to the Spanish courts to secure their freedom between 1530 and 1585. #twitterstorians #slaveryarchive 
(2/4) Plaintiffs had to prove their indigenousness, these lawsuits reveal the difficulties of determining who was an indio and who was not—especially since it was an all-encompassing construct connoting subservience and ...
cont. political personhood and at times could refer to people from Mexico, Peru, or South or East Asia. van Deusen demonstrates that the categories of free and slave were often not easily defined, ...
cont. and she forces a rethinking of the meaning of indio in ways that emphasize the need to situate colonial Spanish American indigenous subjects in a global context.
(3/4) We are grateful to Professor Nancy E. van Deusen for her support of Native Bound Unbound. Incredibly brilliant, generous and kind, she has already begun to share her research and key transcriptions with the project.
(4/4) Please follow along as we share more of this project with everyone! - linktr.ee/natboundunbound
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