Africans in Colonial Mexico Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640

Name: Africans in Colonial Mexico Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640
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ISBN: 9780253342362

ISBN-10: 0253342368

ISBN-13: 9780253342362

Edition: 2003

Authors: Herman L. Bennett

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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.

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/1/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.46" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Herman L. Bennett is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.



Acknowledgments



Soiled Gods and the Formation of a Slave Society



"The Grand Remedy": Africans and Christian Conjugality



Policing Christians: The Inquisition and Ecclesiastical Courts



Christian Matrimony and the Boundaries of African Self-Fashioning



Between Property and Person: Jurisdictional Conflicts over Marriage



Creoles and Christian Narratives


Appendix


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Index