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By tracing the steps of Domingos Alvares, a powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world in which healing, religion, kinship, and political subversion were intimately connected.

En la parte superior de la hoja del mapa: "Mappa Nº X. B." ; Incluye en la parte inferior texto en italiano sobre la cronología de la Guerra de Sucesión entre Borbones y Habsburgo entre 1704 y 1710 ; Relieve representado por normales. Toponimia en italiano con nombres en español y portugués. Costas sombreadas. Divisiones administrativas delimitadas por líneas de puntos. Señaladas las ciudades, trayectos y campos de batallas ; Título en el ángulo inferior izquierdo ; Subtítulo tomado del título del texto explicativo ; Mapa probablemente perteneciente a: "Spagna e Portogallo. .Formazione politica della Monarchia spagnola" ca., 1835 ; Datos del área publicación tomados de la obra anteriormente citada ; Medidas del mapa: 21 x 23 cm ; Divisiones administrativas diferenciadas por color. La línea divisoria con Portugal resaltada por línea de color iluminada también a la aguada

AbstractBeginning with the story of the Muslim youth Mehmed bin Abdülcelil of Tunis, this article examines the plight of Ottoman subjects abducted and sold into slavery within the Ottoman Empire and their efforts to regain freedom through Ottoman courts. Freedom suits (hürriyet davaları) were common in the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire, so much so that contemporary legal praxis manuals (sukuk) always provided examples of how to document them, but they have never been systematically studied for this period in which slave ownership was extremely widespread and the legality of enslavement depended solely on religion and subjecthood. Drawing on a sample of seventy-nine suits from greater Istanbul and elevensukukmanuscripts, this article considers how the trade in the illegally enslaved was concealed by the immense traffic in licit captives and how the theoretical protections of Ottoman subjecthood clashed with the practical challenges of how to prove it, exposing the gap between slavery as legal institution and slaving in practice. Whereas the vast majority of freedom suits ended in rulings in favor of the victims, most of the illegally enslaved probably never managed to have their cases heard or were turned away for lack of evidence.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Outset: The Livonian and Swedish Legal Orders at the Time of the Swedish Conquest -- The Reorganisation of the Livonian Judiciary under the Swedish Rule -- The Procedure in the Livonian Courts of the Swedish Era -- Transplanting Swedish Law? The Legal Sources at the Livonian Courts -- Conclusions -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index.

Attributed to William Bollan--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints. ; "Qui non libere veritatem pronunciat ." ; Electronic reproduction. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 44