Bartolome de Albornoz, Arte de los contractos (1573): a jurist refuses to have a soul paid for with a body

A Valencian law book of 1573 whose chapter on slaves argued that the presumption is always for liberty, that the buyer is accomplice to the seller who had no right, and that no one may be told the freedom of the soul is bought with the servitude of the body. The Holy Office stopped its reading and reprinting. The object prints the argument, the concessions inside it, and the traffic that went on regardless.