Race, Religion, and Slavery in Alonso de Sandoval’s S. J. De instauranda Aethiopum salute
One of the most significant works on black slavery written by a Catholic thinker in the seventeenth century was Alonso de Sandoval’s De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627/21647), which both describes the traffic of African slaves to Latin America and offers different clues to understanding the eme...
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One of the most significant works on black slavery written by a Catholic thinker in the seventeenth century was Alonso de Sandoval’s De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627/21647), which both describes the traffic of African slaves to Latin America and offers different clues to understanding the emergence of an ‘ideology’ of black slavery, which, to a certain extent, justified that system inside the Roman Catholic Church and the Iberian world. At the same time, Sandoval made an attempt to set up ethical criteria for the slave trade and the relationships between masters and slaves in the everyday life of the South American colonies. I propose an analysis of Sandoval's work focusing first on the theological foundations invoked for the slavery of black people, second on legal and moral debates over the justification of the enslaved condition of Africans and of the slave trade, and third on the roles of ‘race,’ ‘racism,’ and ‘true religion’ in Sandoval’s arguments. Sandoval introduces peculiar language and descriptions that deeply devaluate dark-skinned persons in general and African black culture in particular, supporting an ideology of subjection.
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| spelling | doaj.art-25fd1e3125d047a7878b7ececbfc98da2022-12-21T23:32:27ZengCERES / KHK BochumEntangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer2363-66962022-03-0113410.46586/er.13.2022.9459Race, Religion, and Slavery in Alonso de Sandoval’s S. J. De instauranda Aethiopum saluteRoberto Hofmeister Pich One of the most significant works on black slavery written by a Catholic thinker in the seventeenth century was Alonso de Sandoval’s De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627/21647), which both describes the traffic of African slaves to Latin America and offers different clues to understanding the emergence of an ‘ideology’ of black slavery, which, to a certain extent, justified that system inside the Roman Catholic Church and the Iberian world. At the same time, Sandoval made an attempt to set up ethical criteria for the slave trade and the relationships between masters and slaves in the everyday life of the South American colonies. I propose an analysis of Sandoval's work focusing first on the theological foundations invoked for the slavery of black people, second on legal and moral debates over the justification of the enslaved condition of Africans and of the slave trade, and third on the roles of ‘race,’ ‘racism,’ and ‘true religion’ in Sandoval’s arguments. Sandoval introduces peculiar language and descriptions that deeply devaluate dark-skinned persons in general and African black culture in particular, supporting an ideology of subjection. https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/9459black slaveryAlonso de Sandovalraceracismreligionideology |
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| title | Race, Religion, and Slavery in Alonso de Sandoval’s S. J. De instauranda Aethiopum salute |
| title_full | Race, Religion, and Slavery in Alonso de Sandoval’s S. J. De instauranda Aethiopum salute |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Race, Religion, and Slavery in Alonso de Sandoval’s S. J. De instauranda Aethiopum salute |
| title_short | Race, Religion, and Slavery in Alonso de Sandoval’s S. J. De instauranda Aethiopum salute |
| title_sort | race religion and slavery in alonso de sandoval s s j de instauranda aethiopum salute |
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