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Question: Siete Partidas - what does it say about slavery!?
A few seem to say that Las Siete Partidas is basically in disagreement of any slavery and had rules against it!.!.!.!. yet other courses say that slavery was "ntrenched" in these bodies of law!.
Is it possible to find a copy of the actual Siete Partidas anywhere!? or does anyone know more about it!?
I think it says something against slavery of christians!.!.!. but I am interested in whether there were rules regarding enslavement of africans or amerindians written in this book!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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The Fourth Partida contains the information you are seeking and in part states:
The fourth partida consists of 27 articles comprising 256 laws!. Its subject is family law, as well as other permanent relationships between people, other than matrimony and biological kinship!.
It deals with engagement (4,1,2); matrimony (4,2,1) and the capacity, form, and validity of the canon law to which it is subject; divorce (which does not refer to the dissolution of the matrimonial bond, but rather with separation or the cessation of cohabitation); legitimate and illegitimate patrimony (4,14,1); parens patriae (the rights of the state to intervene in the interests of minor children); slavery (4,23,8), described as the "vilest thing in this world" after sin itself; the civil status of persons (free and slave; noble and commoner; clergy and laity; legitimate and illegitimate; Christian, Moor, and Jew; male and female); serfdom and fiefs; and the bonds of friendship!.
The following is a reference to the writing you are seeking however it is in spanish!.
Las Siete Partidas!.- BOE, 1999 - ISBN 84-340-0223-X (edición facisimilar de la edición de 1555, con glosas de Gregorio López)!.
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