There is no bad expense: the incorporation of the enslaved into the local market of lima at the end of the 18th century

Abstract

The article discusses how the enslaved people of Lima entered the market from their condition as enslaved people and commodities and, based on this phenomenon, they managed consumption patterns. The incorporation of enslaved people into the local market through wages or day labor, savings, and consumption allows us to appreciate in a different way their resistance strategies in Lima at the end of the 18th Century. This article uses documentation from the General Archive of the Nation and the Ecclesiastical Archive of Lima, in addition to the memoirs of contemporary travelers and other primary sources.