{"id":11546,"date":"2011-11-16T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=11546"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:31:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:31:45","slug":"2011-surrency-prize-to-mckinley-fractional-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/2011-surrency-prize-to-mckinley-fractional-freedoms\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Surrency Prize to Michelle McKinley for \u201cFractional Freedoms\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surrency prize to McKinley, “Fractional Freedoms”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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November 15, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

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UO law professor Michelle McKinley<\/p><\/div>\n

University of Oregon law professor Michelle McKinley was named this year\u2019s winner of the Surrency prize, awarded by the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) for the best article published in the Society’s journal, the Law and History Review<\/em>. McKinley\u2019s winning article is titled \u201cFractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism, and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima, 1593-1689.\u201d The article appeared in Volume 28, no. 3. McKinley is a faculty affiliate of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society and an active member of the CSWS collaborative research interest group project Service and Servitude<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The official citation reads:<\/p>\n

\u201cMichelle McKinley’s \u2018Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism, and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima, 1593-1689\u2019 insightfully advances our understanding of how the role of the Catholic Church in the law and legal institutions of colonial Latin America affected the experience of slavery there in ways that made it differ significantly from North American slavery. Drawing from ecclesiastical court records demonstrating the ability of slaves in Spanish Peru to sue for marriage and divorce, protect their families’ integrity, enforce promises of manumission, and compel transfers of ownership to less abusive masters, McKinley gives us indelible examples of enslaved women acting as autonomous agents shaping, within the confines of their bondage, their lives and destinies. Engaging long-standing debates between scholars with a variety of perspectives on the role of law and legal agency in the institution of slavery, McKinley forcefully asserts that law matters, that legal traditions and religious institutions can ameliorate social relations grounded in unbridled power and material interests.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Fractional Freedoms\u2019 is also thoroughly sourced in archival records from Peru and in secondary literature, in multiple languages, from three continents. The Surrency Committee was impressed by McKinley’s mastery of this transnational array of material covering many legal subjects, as well as the eloquence with which she drew from it to reconstruct daily life, intimate relations, and societal norms in seventeenth-century Peru. \u2018Fractional Freedoms\u2019 is commended as a work of social, cultural, and legal history that is sure to inform the way scholars think and write about slavery in the Americas.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Surrency prize to McKinley, “Fractional Freedoms”. November 15, 2011 University of Oregon law professor Michelle McKinley was named this year\u2019s winner of the Surrency prize, awarded by the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) for the best article published in…<\/p>\n

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