英陽鄕校의 校奴婢 劃給 과정 –1687년(숙종 13) 『鄕校奴婢案』 자료의 분석 사례-

Abstract

This article examines the distribution procedures of public slaves to the local Confucian schools in Joseon through a 1687 document, “Slave Register for a Local Confucian School” (鄕校奴婢案) from Yeongyang Confucian School. In 1683, Yeongyang became a separate county from a district of Yeonghae Protectorate and later established a local Confucian school (hyanggyo, 鄕校), according to ‘a school per town’ rule. Bak Sungbu(朴崇阜), the county magistrate, acquired ten school slaves from the state for campus management and later transcribed the process onto the “Slave Register.” According to this document, the magistrate submitted to the Gyeongsang Provincial Governor his intention to get ten slaves for the local school, subject to the provision in the National Code (Gyeongguk daejeon, 經國大典). Then the provincial governor submitted a report mentioning the request to King Sukjong, who ordered the Bureau of Slave Management (Jangyewon, 掌隷院) to handle the matter. The Bureau submitted to the king a proposal with a list of candidates among the slaves living off-site in Yeongyang. Upon the royal consent, the final decision was delivered through a document from the Bureau to the governor, and another document from the governor to the magistrate. The magistrate finalized the selection of ten slaves among the candidates and copied the result—one for reporting to the provincial governor, and the other for the Bureau to process the final distribution. The Bureau submitted another proposal to carry out the distribution process, which the king consented. Another relay of documents went from the Bureau to the provincial governor, and to the county magistrate, thus assigning the slaves to the Yeongyang Confucian School.