Blacks in Colonial Veracruz Race, Ethnicity, and Regional Development

Name: Blacks in Colonial Veracruz Race, Ethnicity, and Regional Development
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ISBN: 9780292712331

ISBN-10: 0292712332

ISBN-13: 9780292712331

Edition: 2nd 1991 (Reprint)

Authors: Patrick J. Carroll

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Beginning with the Spanish conquest, Mexico has become a racially complex society intermixing Indian, Spanish, and African populations. Questions of race and ethnicity have fueled much political and scholarly debate, sometimes obscuring the experiences of particular groups, especially blacks. Blacks in Colonial Veracruz seeks to remedy this omission by studying the black experience in central Veracruz during virtually the entire colonial period. The book probes the conditions that shaped the lives of inhabitants in Veracruz from the first European contact through the early formative period, colonial years, independence era, and the postindependence decade. While the primary focus is on…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 5/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Human and Material Consequences of Indian and European Contact



The Hows, Whens, Whos, and Whys of the Afro-Veracruz Slave Trade



Regional Production, Market, and Capital Development



Afro-Veracruzanos and Changing Colonial Labor Patterns



Slaves and Social Change, 1570-1720



Two Routes to Freedom: Cordoba and Jalapa



Free Afro-Veracruzanos and the Late Colonial Socioeconomic Order



Adjustment, Independence, Politics, and Race


Conclusions


Appendixes



Materials Relating to the Afro-Mexican and Afro-Veracruz Slave Trade



Materials Relating to Demographic and Economic Change



Materials Relating to Afro-Veracruzanos and Socioeconomic Change


Notes


Sources Cited


Index