Chile/South America (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin W Stone.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In November 1542 King Charles I passed the “New Laws” outlawing Indigenous slavery in the Spanish Empire. Yet, the laws left legal justifications for enslaving indigenous peoples, most significantly “just war.” Thus the New Laws did not end the Indigenous slave trade but moved it from the core of the empire to its periphery; to...