Abstract
ABSTRACT When considering cases such as Víctor Lucumí Chappotín's, a slave of the Lucumí nation who owned slaves in Cuba during the 1830s (a period when the illegal slave trade was blooming), scholars have tended to ask certain types of questions: Did the law recognize such forms of ownership? Were slaves allowed to acquire other slaves for their own benefit? In this essay, we aim to go beyond the strictly juridical terrain to reflect on the conditions that allowed for this singular situation and evaluate the degree of autonomy implied in the ability to own individuals with whom the slave shared a social and juridical condition. To do so, we examine the goals and motivations of those who consented this usufruct and those who held it.
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