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: 9780253109859

ISBN-10: 025310985X

ISBN-13: 9780253109859

Edition: 2003

Authors: Herman L. Bennett

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"Colonial Mexico was home to the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New World. This book is a study of this population, chiefly in the Mexico City area. It looks at the ways in which slaves and free blacks learned to make their way in a culture of state and religious absolutism. Herman L. Bennett is particularly interested in the way blacks learned to use Spanish and ecclesiastical legal institutions to create a semblance of cultural autonomy, while at the same time enmeshing themselves and their descendants with the dominant culture. This distinctive aspect of Afro-Mexican creolization in an absolutist culture has been little studied. Bennett has gone to the secular and…

Book details

List price: $9.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/24/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long
Weight: 0.066
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


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index