Add to ORKGTwo case studies show the daily practice of justice regarding free Blacks and Coloreds in Curacao and the functioning of the early modern Dutch legal system pertaining to colonial and slavery-related matters. According to the author, both cases reveal that the application of the law, when free non-Whites were involved, was apparently open to interpretation and that there was a divergence in this respect between the colony and the metropole. Author assesses this conflict between the theory of the law and the practice of the administration of justice in the colonies
Page range: 47-66Legal pluralism was a fundamental feature of the political order in colonial Indone...
When Christopher Columbus (circa 1451-1506) arrived at the Bahamas in 1492, it could hardly be predi...
In the seventeenth century, some conversos living throughout Western Europe, who had been either tra...
This dissertation is predicated upon the hypothesis that the agency of the non-whites in 18th centu...
In the Dutch Republic slavery was not permitted on its soil in Western Europe. Enslaved people obtai...
Suriname was one of the most emblematic slave societies of the Atlantic world and saw a court syste...
The article provides an overview of the historiographical debates on the relevance of law and courts...
The Dutch participated fully in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Dutch colonies, it was said, coul...
Focuses on the socio-economic position of free non-whites in 18th-c. Curaçao. The manumission rate w...
In May of 1746, slaving captain Christiaan Hagerop illegally captured ten Gold Coast canoe paddlers,...
In May of 1746, slaving captain Christiaan Hagerop illegally captured ten Gold Coast canoe paddlers,...
Includes bibliography.The administration of justice at the Cape cannot be seen separately from the s...
Includes bibliography.The administration of justice at the Cape cannot be seen separately from the s...
Includes bibliography.The administration of justice at the Cape cannot be seen separately from the s...
Legal pluralism was a fundamental feature of the political order in colonial Indonesia. It arose not...
Page range: 47-66Legal pluralism was a fundamental feature of the political order in colonial Indone...
When Christopher Columbus (circa 1451-1506) arrived at the Bahamas in 1492, it could hardly be predi...
In the seventeenth century, some conversos living throughout Western Europe, who had been either tra...
This dissertation is predicated upon the hypothesis that the agency of the non-whites in 18th centu...
In the Dutch Republic slavery was not permitted on its soil in Western Europe. Enslaved people obtai...
Suriname was one of the most emblematic slave societies of the Atlantic world and saw a court syste...
The article provides an overview of the historiographical debates on the relevance of law and courts...
The Dutch participated fully in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Dutch colonies, it was said, coul...
Focuses on the socio-economic position of free non-whites in 18th-c. Curaçao. The manumission rate w...
In May of 1746, slaving captain Christiaan Hagerop illegally captured ten Gold Coast canoe paddlers,...
In May of 1746, slaving captain Christiaan Hagerop illegally captured ten Gold Coast canoe paddlers,...
Includes bibliography.The administration of justice at the Cape cannot be seen separately from the s...
Includes bibliography.The administration of justice at the Cape cannot be seen separately from the s...
Includes bibliography.The administration of justice at the Cape cannot be seen separately from the s...
Legal pluralism was a fundamental feature of the political order in colonial Indonesia. It arose not...
Page range: 47-66Legal pluralism was a fundamental feature of the political order in colonial Indone...
When Christopher Columbus (circa 1451-1506) arrived at the Bahamas in 1492, it could hardly be predi...
In the seventeenth century, some conversos living throughout Western Europe, who had been either tra...