Estudios sociales - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 14:11:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Estudios sociales - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Demographic wight and femininity of servants in French cities of the ancient regime https://historylab.es/demographic-wight-and-femininity-of-servants-in-french-cities-of-the-ancient-regime/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=demographic-wight-and-femininity-of-servants-in-french-cities-of-the-ancient-regime Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:20 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/poids-demographique-et-feminite-des-serviteursdans-les-villes-francaises-dancien-regime/ Annex to the demographic weight of women in servitude in France under the ancient regime

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]]> Gender studies have burst onto the scene to make up for years of women’s relative absence from historical analysis. Social gender studies allow us to trace patterns of behaviour that influence the genders in their performance in history. In this case, we see the enormous weight of women in French serfdom during the ancien régime. This is mainly due to the fact that women, unlike men, did not tend to be as mobile as men. To this must be added the fact that the burden of children was often left to the mother, who often had to raise them alone due to the high mortality rate among men. The need to maintain the family economy created these networks of dependency, which mainly affected women from the lowest social stratum. In this way, we could also make a class analysis of which spectrum of women was susceptible to servitude. In this case, those who belonged to the privileged social groups tended to have incomes which, in the case of widowhood, allowed them to support themselves.

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]]> Legitimacy and parental status https://historylab.es/legitimacy-and-parental-status/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=legitimacy-and-parental-status Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:20 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/legitimidad-y-condicion-juridica-de-los-padres/ Legitimacy and legal status of slave fathers in Cadiz from the 17th century to the second half of the 18th century

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]]> The city of Cadiz underwent an economic transformation during the modern age that turned it into one of the most important cities in Europe. The crossroads of trade routes from the Indies, Africa and Asia turned this great city not only into a commercial emporium, but also into a place marked by the presence of allochthonous people who were integrated into servitude and slavery. The study of the profile of the slave is a task that has been undertaken by social history. This type of study has never ceased to be of interest in order to gain a closer understanding of the networks that operated in the transatlantic empires. In this case, the legal status of the parents of these slaves is shown. This type of testimony is made possible by the scrupulousness with which ecclesiastical documents were used to classify individuals and to obtain information about their life trajectory, a documentation that was promoted above all after the Council of Trent. The testimonies describe the situation of the baptised slave in a city as important as Cadiz. Informal links between the progenitors prevailed, as it was not common for the masters to approve of the union between slaves. When this happened, or when another slave became pregnant, they were usually separated so that they could not meet again. This explains why the descendants often did not know who their father was.

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