La esclavitud en el XVI en territorios hispánicos

Abstract

Auto-liberation movements of enslaved peoples in the Spanish America are ubicuous, they do exist from the beginning of the slavery system and they are persistent in time and geographical extensión. The knolwedge of the cultural links between Africa and America has a singular interest in the new schema that aroused from the new paradigms of afrocentricity. From this ontological position we can observe those struggles as pioneer liberation movements. This study describes the living conditions of the enslaved peoples in Hispanic territories and ennumerates the possible factors involved in the auto-liberaton actions to infer a causal relation between African socio-political structures and the maroonage movements.

Keywords

• esclavitud, auto-liberación, cimarronaje, américa hispánica, siglo xvi,