From Muslim Slave to Catholic Surgeon: A Case of Manumission in the Galleys of Spain

Peláez-Domínguez, Teresa (15 April 2024). From Muslim Slave to Catholic Surgeon: A Case of Manumission in the Galleys of Spain. In: Tolino, Serena; Anchassi, Omar Walid; Emunds, Laura; Rowitz, Laura (eds.), In: Source of the Month, "Project TraSIS: Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies"..

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In Summer 2023, the TraSIS project organised a joint conference with the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) in the picturesque Swiss lakeside town of Murtensee. Some of our guests generously agreed to contribute a blog post in which they discuss one of the sources they presented on at the conference.
In the first post of this series, Teresa Peláez-Domínguez, a doctoral researcher at the University of Valencia, introduces us to the world of galley slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean, presenting a manumission petition by a galley slave addressed to Philip II (r. in the Hispanic Monarchy 1556–1598) in February 1587. The blog post shows that documents like this provide rare glimpses into the social and cultural realities lived by enslaved people and help us to hear their otherwise often marginalised voices.

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