On 24 February 1587, the Crown issued legislation describing which Indigenous people could be held captive and under what purported legal conditions. Such rules did not establish meaningful consent or protect Indigenous sovereignty: colonial authorities used categories like “just war” to legitimize dispossession and forced labor. The law belongs to a repeated cycle in which formal limits on enslavement coexisted with legal exceptions and colonial enforcement in favor of settlers.
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What did the 24 February 1587 legislation address?
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The law defined categories and conditions for Indigenous captivity.
The 1587 laws demonstrate that colonial rule regulated both Indigenous captivity and slave transactions.
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The February law addressed Indigenous captives and the July license recognized “rescue” transactions.