Francisco José de Jaca's (c. 1645–1689) and Epifanio de Moirans's (1644–1689) plea for the liberation of enslaved black people in Latin America
- Book Title:
- Civilization – Nature – Subjugation: Variations of (De-)Colonization
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- Book Chapter
- Year:
- 2021
- Publisher:
- Peter Lang GmbH
- Place published:
- Frankfurt am Main
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In this essay I highlight what two Capuchin missionaries, Francisco José de Jaca and Epifanio de Moirans, wrote against black slavery in polemical treatises in the last quarter of the 17th century. I particularly look at the evaluations they provided of Jesuit thinkers’ opinions about the trade of black slaves. Jaca and Moirans synthesized several different discourses about black slavery in 16th-and 17th-century moral philosophy and theology. I explore the thesis that they reacted against two core narratives that made black slavery permissible in their time, in the context of the transatlantic slave trade and European colonies in the Americas. These narratives were (i) the casuistry of cases of conscience involving actors within the chain of slave trade that were somehow distant from the original enslavement and first-hand buying and selling of slaves, and (ii) the role played by moral probabilism in order to legitimize the system of slavery.
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- Page Range:
- 69-110
- ISBN:
- 97836318462309783631846247
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- Series: Treffpunkt Philosophie