ABSTRACT

When considering cases such as Víctor Lucumí Chappotín's, a slave of the Lucumí nation who owned slaves in Cuba during the 1830s (a period when the illegal slave trade was blooming), scholars have tended to ask certain types of questions: Did the law recognize such forms of ownership? Were slaves allowed to acquire other slaves for their own benefit? In this essay, we aim to go beyond the strictly juridical terrain to reflect on the conditions that allowed for this singular situation and evaluate the degree of autonomy implied in the ability to own individuals with whom the slave shared a social and juridical condition. To do so, we examine the goals and motivations of those who consented this usufruct and those who held it.

摘要

在考虑诸如维克多·卢库米·查普蓬（VíctorLucumíChappotín）的案件时，学者在1830年代（非法奴隶贸易盛行的那个时期）在古巴拥有奴隶，是卢克米国家的奴隶。所有权形式？奴隶被允许为了自己的利益而获得其他奴隶吗？在本文中，我们的目标是超越严格的司法范围，反思允许这种特殊情况发生的条件，并评估拥有奴隶与之共享社会和司法条件的个人的能力所隐含的自治程度。为此，我们研究了同意这种使用权的人和持有这种使用权的人的目标和动机。