17세기 어느 校奴婢 일가의 奴婢訟을 통해 본 몇 가지 사회상

Abstract

This thesis has taken a look at a number of social aspects based on litigation of slaves that was undertaken a family of Gyonobi (slaves tied to school) and a Confucian scholar of Punggi Hyanggyo (public school in Punggi) in Gyeongsang-do during the 17th century. The parties to the litigation were descendents of Joojilbun, a Gyobi. Following the principles of the Joseon Dynasty in ‘Ilcheonchikcheon (once a slave, forever slave)’ and ‘Slave Belonging to Mother Law’ during the Joseon Dynasty, descendents of Joojilbun had to be Gyonobi s of Punggi Hyanggyo, but they conspired with a Eupri (local government employee) to morok (record of falsified fact) as a wanderer. Furthermore, they attempted to break away from Gyonobi by enlisting for military service for a good-hearted person, such as, shooter or infantry of Hunryeondogam (military in capital area) or named themselves as an illegitimate child of a well-established clan or child of a slave wife, but they failed in their endeavor due to the defeat in the litigation against the Confucian scholars of Punggi Hyanggyo. Gyonobi belongs to Hyanggyo to provide personal and property resources that they were indispensable beings in operation and maintenance of such establishment. In addition, Hyanggyo was an educational institution and an important rural community organization where clans were active. Therefore, these Confucian scholars of Punggi Hyanggyo cut off the breaking away of Gyonobi in the Joojilbun clan through litigation in a way of seeking for stable operation of Hyanggyo and maintaining the order of noble clans. In the meantime, those Confucian scholars of Punggi Hyanggyo focused the most in the litigation in the return of Whojong who enlisted as a shooter of Hunryeondogam and a son of Joojilbun. If Whojong would have gotton a higher social status after assigning to a military position of Cheajik (a position with government salary of some sort) with Hunryeondogam as his stepping stone, they thought it would be more difficult to prevent the series of deviation by the clan that they petitioned for Whojong’s return as their first priority.