Abstract

MORENO ORAMA, Rebeca. FROM LEGAL TO ECCLESIASTIC RHETORIC: ANTISLAVERY MISSION IN The 17^th CENTURY. perifrasis. rev.lit.teor.crit. [online]. 2015, vol.6, n.11, pp.89-104. ISSN 2145-8987.

In 1537 the Catholic Church prohibited Amerindian slavery, but not until 1839 would they do the same with African slavery. Between the centuries that span from one position to the other, religious condemnation of African slavery was in the hands of but a few missionaries. This work discusses how, through the employment of legal and ecclesiastic rhetoric, the Capuchin monk Francisco José de Jaca constructs in his Resolución (Havana, 1681) an alternative missionary project, focused on the denunciation of the Catholic body involved in the slavery institution and not on the evangelization of Africans.

Keywords : Francisco José de Jaca; slavery; Hispanic Caribbean; Catholic religion; law.

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