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Author: Herman L. Bennett
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005-02-23
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 025321775X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom secular and ecclesiastical court records, Bennett reconstructs the lives of slave and free blacks, their regulation by the government and by the Church, the impact of the Inquisition, their legal status in marriage and their rights and obligations as Christian subjects.
Author: Herman L. Bennett
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009-07-06
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 025300361X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAsking readers to imagine a history of Mexico narrated through the experiences of Africans and their descendants, this book offers a radical reconfiguration of Latin American history. Using ecclesiastical and inquisitorial records, Herman L. Bennett frames the history of Mexico around the private lives and liberty that Catholicism engendered among enslaved Africans and free blacks, who became majority populations soon after the Spanish conquest. The resulting history of 17th-century Mexico brings forth tantalizing personal and family dramas, body politics, and stories of lost virtue and sullen honor. By focusing on these phenomena among peoples of African descent, rather than the conventional history of Mexico with the narrative of slavery to freedom figured in, Colonial Blackness presents the colonial drama in all its untidy detail.
Author: Tatiana Seijas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-23
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1107063124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a history of Asian slaves in colonial Mexico and their journey from bondage to freedom.
Author: Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-05
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 110841981X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocuses on enslaved families and their social networks in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles in seventeenth-century colonial Mexico.
Author: Ben Vinson (III.)
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited volume compiles the most recent research on a pivotal topic in Latin American history--Afro-Mexican experiences from pre-conquest to the modern period.
Author: Sherwin K. Bryant
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012-02-15
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0252093712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfricans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires. While a majority of the research on the colonial Diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes opens up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secular and ecclesiastical institutions as well as articulations of multiple African identities. Editors Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, and Ben Vinson III arrange the volume around three themes: identity construction in the Americas; the struggle by enslaved and free people to present themselves as civilized, Christian, and resistant to slavery; and issues of cultural exclusion and inclusion. Across these broad themes, contributors offer probing and detailed studies of the place and roles of people of African descent in the complex realities of colonial Spanish America. Contributors are Joan C. Bristol, Nancy E. van Deusen, Leo J. Garofalo, Herbert S. Klein, Charles Beatty-Medina, Karen Y. Morrison, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, Frank "Trey" Proctor III, and Michele Reid-Vazquez.
Author: Theodore W. Cohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-05-07
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 1108671179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2015, the Mexican state counted how many of its citizens identified as Afro-Mexican for the first time since independence. Finding Afro-Mexico reveals the transnational interdisciplinary histories that led to this celebrated reformulation of Mexican national identity. It traces the Mexican, African American, and Cuban writers, poets, anthropologists, artists, composers, historians, and archaeologists who integrated Mexican history, culture, and society into the African Diaspora after the Revolution of 1910. Theodore W. Cohen persuasively shows how these intellectuals rejected the nineteenth-century racial paradigms that heralded black disappearance when they made blackness visible first in Mexican culture and then in post-revolutionary society. Drawing from more than twenty different archives across the Americas, this cultural and intellectual history of black visibility, invisibility, and community-formation questions the racial, cultural, and political dimensions of Mexican history and Afro-diasporic thought.
Author: Alice L Baumgartner
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1541617770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.
Author: Russell Lohse
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0826354971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World. Tracing the experiences of Africans on two Danish slave ships that arrived in Costa Rica in 1710, the Christianus Quintus and Fredericus Quartus, the author examines slavery in Costa Rica from 1600 to 1750. Lohse looks at the ethnic origins of the Africans and narrates their capture and transport to the coast, their embarkation and passage, and finally their acculturation to slavery and their lives as slaves in Costa Rica. Following the experiences of girls and boys, women and men, he shows how the conditions of slavery in a unique local setting determined the constraints that slaves faced and how they responded to their condition.
Author: Matthew Restall
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780826324030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first study of the complex relationships among the races in Latin America after Spanish colonization.
