Las dos caras de una misma moneda. Reformismo y esclavitud en Santo Domingo a fines del periodo colonial1

Abstract

The Bourbon reforms tried to increase slavery in the Spanish Caribbean. One of these projects was the creation of a new Legal Code pertaining to the relationship between owners and slaves, the Ordenanzas de Santo Domingo and, later, the Código Negro Carolino. These new laws were so far removed from pre-existing owner-slave customs and traditions in Santo Domingo that they were never were implemented.