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Author: Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-05
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 110841981X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focuses on enslaved families and their social networks in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles in seventeenth-century colonial Mexico.
Author: Tatiana Seijas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-23
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1139952854
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia journeyed to Mexico on the ships of the Manila Galleon. Upon arrival in Mexico, they were grouped together and categorized as chinos. Their experience illustrates the interconnectedness of Spain's colonies and the reach of the crown, which brought people together from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe in a historically unprecedented way. In time, chinos in Mexico came to be treated under the law as Indians, becoming indigenous vassals of the Spanish crown after 1672. The implications of this legal change were enormous: as Indians, rather than chinos, they could no longer be held as slaves. Tatiana Seijas tracks chinos' complex journey from the slave market in Manila to the streets of Mexico City, and from bondage to liberty. In doing so, she challenges commonly held assumptions about the uniformity of the slave experience in the Americas.
Author: Christoph Rosenmüller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-02
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1108477119
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides the first detailed analysis of the evolution of the concept of corruption in colonial Mexico.
Author: Alice L Baumgartner
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1541617770
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A 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: Tatiana Seijas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-23
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1107063124
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a history of Asian slaves in colonial Mexico and their journey from bondage to freedom.
Author: Herman L. Bennett
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009-07-06
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 025300361X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Asking 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: Ben Vinson III
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1107026431
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book deepens our understanding of race and the implications of racial mixture by examining the history of caste in colonial Mexico.
Author: Tamara J. Walker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-07-03
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1316033554
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Exquisite Slaves, Tamara J. Walker examines how slaves used elegant clothing as a language for expressing attitudes about gender and status in the wealthy urban center of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Lima, Peru. Drawing on traditional historical research methods, visual studies, feminist theory, and material culture scholarship, Walker argues that clothing was an emblem of not only the reach but also the limits of slaveholders' power and racial domination. Even as it acknowledges the significant limits imposed on slaves' access to elegant clothing, Exquisite Slaves also showcases the insistence and ingenuity with which slaves dressed to convey their own sense of humanity and dignity. Building on other scholars' work on slaves' agency and subjectivity in examining how they made use of myriad legal discourses and forums, Exquisite Slaves argues for the importance of understanding the body itself as a site of claims-making.
Author: Herman L. Bennett
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005-02-23
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 025321775X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From 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: Theodore W. Cohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-05-07
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 1108671179
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 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.
