Notaries of color in colonial Panama : Limpieza de Sangre, Legislation and Imperial Practices in the Administration of the Spanish Empire

On July 20, 1740, King Philip V of Spain was given paperwork regarding a dispute over the adjudication of a notarial office in Panama City and, as usual, he was expected to make a decision. The king also had in hand recommendations from the Cámara of the Consejo de Indias. The king would have handled the case in a relatively straightforward manner, but for one fact—the two notaries involved in the public bid were of African descent.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

Notaries of color in colonial Panama: Limpieza de Sangre, legislation, and imperial practices in the administration of the Spanish empire

This is the final version of the article. Available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this record.Funding from the Federation of Women Graduates Charitable Foundation, the AHRC Doctoral Award, and the Society for Latin American Studies Post-doctoral Travel Grant (UK) made possible the archival research