Day 2 - From Colony to Republic: The Social History of Law in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

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Saturday, 22 October 2022

10:00-12:00 Latin American Centre Main Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
Session 3: Plebeian, Slave, and Women Litigants in Post-Colonial Latin America
Chair: tba
Yesenia Barragan (Rutgers University, USA), The Legal Rights of Slaveholders in Gradual Emancipation Colombia
Cassia Roth (University of Georgia, USA), Enslaved Mothers as Litigants in Post-Colonial Brazil
Ángela Pérez-Villa (Western Michigan University, USA), Women as Litigants in Early Post-Colonial Colombia
Natalia Sobrevilla (University of Kent, UK), Soldiers as Litigants in Post-Colonial Peru

14:00-16:00 Latin American Centre Main Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
Session 4: Labour-Law in Post-Colonial Latin America
Chair: tba
Andre Jockyman Roithmann (University of Oxford, UK), Anti-Vagrancy Laws and Forced Labor in Post-Colonial Brazil, 1824-1840
Casey Lurtz (John Hopkins University, USA), Debt Peonage in Post-Colonial Mexico
María Luisa Soux (Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia), Labor and Servitude in Post-Colonial Bolivian Law

17:00-19:00 Latin American Centre Main Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
Commentaries and Final Reflections
Commentary by Fernanda Pirie (University of Oxford, UK)
Commentary by Alan Knight (University of Oxford, UK)
Participants Final Reflections