{"id":5006,"date":"2010-05-17T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:31:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:31:45","slug":"michelle-mckinley-csws-research-matters-spring-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/michelle-mckinley-csws-research-matters-spring-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle McKinley: CSWS Research Matters Spring 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UO law professor Michelle McKinley<\/p><\/div>\n

UO law professor Michelle McKinley\u2019s paper \u201cIllicit Intimacies and Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima\u201d is now available online in the Spring 2010 issue of CSWS Research Matters<\/em><\/a>. CSWS supported McKinley\u2019s work with a 2009 Faculty Research Grant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy work situates enslaved women as legal agents who simultaneously occupied multiple identities as mistresses, workers, wives, mothers, wet nurses, and domestics that conditioned their experience of slavery. Despite the variable outcomes of their lawsuits, I show how enslaved women used channels of affection and sexuality to access freedom and prevent the generational transmission of enslavement to their children. Although attentive to the overarching oppressive structures of slavery, my project reveals instances in the lives of enslaved women when they acted as subjects other than human property.<\/p>\n

\"Spring<\/a>\u201cMore broadly, a review of the voluminous amounts of slave litigation demonstrates that access to courts indubitably affected the construction of colonial slaveholding societies, potentially constrained the repressive behavior of slave owners, and afforded the enslaved a measure of autonomy over their lives in bondage. A retrospective look at these proceedings tells us how litigants and their advocates strategically exploited the rhetorical power of liberty within the courts, even when their lived realities were decidedly unfree and unequal,\u201d McKinley writes.<\/p>\n

Professor McKinley recently was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for her book manuscript.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UO law professor Michelle McKinley\u2019s paper \u201cIllicit Intimacies and Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima\u201d is now available online in the Spring 2010 issue of CSWS Research Matters. CSWS supported McKinley\u2019s work with a 2009…<\/p>\n

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