The debate over the enslavement of Indians and Africans in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spanish empire
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PERDICES DE BLAS, Luis, y RAMOS-GOROSTIZA, José Luis, “The Debate over the Enslavement of Indians and Africans in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Empire”, en Jörg Tellkamp (ed.), A Companion to Early Modern Spanish Imperial Political and Social Thought, Leiden y Boston: Brill, 2020, pp. 295–317.
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El objeto de este capítulo es el estudio de las dos etapas en las que se desarrolló el debate sobre la esclavitud en el Imperio español durante los siglos XVI y XVII, debate en el que la distinción aristotélica entre esclavitud natural y legal desempeñó un papel principal. En la primera etapa se discutió sobre la esclavitud de los indios, y en dicha discusión participaron tanto el maestro de la Escuela de Salamanca Francisco de Vitoria y sus discípulos, como el activista Bartolomé de las Casas y el cronista y erudito Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, que mantuvieron una intensa polémica fuera de las aulas universitarias. En la segunda etapa, Domingo de Soto, Tomás de Mercado, Bartolomé Frías de Albornoz, Francisco García y Luis de Molina, entre otros, discutieron sobre la trata de esclavos africanos. En ninguna de estas dos etapas los arbitristas prestaron atención alguna a la esclavitud.
The purpose of this chapter is to study the two stages in which the debate on slavery in the Spanish Empire developed during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a debate in which the Aristotelian distinction between natural and legal slavery played a major role. In the first stage, slavery of the Indians was discussed, and the Salamanca School teacher Francisco de Vitoria and his disciples, as well as the activist Bartolomé de las Casas and the chronicler and scholar Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, participated in the debate and maintained an intense polemic outside the university classrooms. In the second stage, Domingo de Soto, Tomás de Mercado, Bartolomé Frías de Albornoz, Francisco García and Luis de Molina, among others, discussed the African slave trade. In neither of these two stages did the arbitristas pay any attention to slavery.
The purpose of this chapter is to study the two stages in which the debate on slavery in the Spanish Empire developed during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a debate in which the Aristotelian distinction between natural and legal slavery played a major role. In the first stage, slavery of the Indians was discussed, and the Salamanca School teacher Francisco de Vitoria and his disciples, as well as the activist Bartolomé de las Casas and the chronicler and scholar Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, participated in the debate and maintained an intense polemic outside the university classrooms. In the second stage, Domingo de Soto, Tomás de Mercado, Bartolomé Frías de Albornoz, Francisco García and Luis de Molina, among others, discussed the African slave trade. In neither of these two stages did the arbitristas pay any attention to slavery.