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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat, Cançoners
Silleras-Fernández, Nuria, "Nigra sum sed formosa: Black slaves and exotica in the court of a Fourteenth-Century aragonese queen", Medieval Encounters, 13/3 (2007), 546-565.
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- African slaves of Europeans are most commonly associated with images of exploitation asbrute labor or domestic servants, as marginalized and discriminated against on the basis of their skin color, and perceived of as of inherently lower status. An examination of the roleof black slaves in the royal households of the Crown of Aragon in the late Middle Ages andearly Renaissance, however, reveals that African captives were sometimes given a privilegedposition at court. African slaves were esteemed as ornamental fixtures and, as such, com-prised yet another element of the exotica with which members of the aristocratic elite sur-rounded themselves in order to convey a sense of wealth and power. Although this may represent yet another dimension of the objectification of these slaves, nevertheless, it reflectsthe fact that, prior to the age of colonization and mass-enslavement, Africans could bevalued rather than disdained for their appearance.
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