Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism, and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima, 1593–1689

In 1629, Gaspar Zape sought a preliminary injunction in Lima's ecclesias tical court against Geronimo Vosmediano de Leon to prevent him from shipping Juliana Bran off to Chile. Gaspar learned that Vosmediano de Leon, his wife's owner, planned to send Juliana off to Chile as a wet nurse for his newborn granddaughter. Acting quickly, Gaspar sought court intervention basing his injunction on his right to marital unity and cohabitation that was the prerogative of enslaved married couples granted by the Siete Partidas} Vosmediano de Leon responded by invoking his