Partus Sequitur Ventrem in Theory and Practice: Slavery and Reproduction in Early Modern Portuguese Asia.
Whereas partus sequitur ventrem ("the birth follows the womb") laws and their effects on the lives of enslaved women and their children are well understood in the Atlantic context, they remain entirely unstudied in the case of the slave trade in Asia, in particular Portuguese Asia, the string of ent...
| Publicado en: | Gender & History Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 542 - 562 |
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