Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives Blacks in Colonial Latin America

Name: Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives Blacks in Colonial Latin America
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ISBN: 9780826323972

ISBN-10: 0826323979

ISBN-13: 9780826323972

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jane G. Landers, Barry M. Robinson, Lyman L. Johnson

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Almost eleven of the twelve million Africans who survived the trauma of enslavement in Africa and the horrors of the Middle Passage, remade their lives in territories claimed by Spain or Portugal. Drawing on a wealth of previously unused sources, the authors show that although plantation slavery was a horrible reality for many Africans and their descendants in Latin America, blacks experienced many other realities in Iberian colonies. Paul Lovejoy analyses a treatise by a seventeenth-century Muslim scholar in Morocco and argues it shaped the slave trade to Latin America. John Thornton examines the early and significant adaptations Central Africans made to European material culture and…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 10/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.04" wide x 8.96" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Jane Landers is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




The Context of Enslavement in West Africa: Ahmad Baba and the Ethics of Slavery




Boiling It Down: Slavery on the First Commercial Sugarcane Ingenios in the Americas (Hispaniola, 1530-45)




Central Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade




Cimarron and Citizen: African Ethnicity, Corporate Identity, and the Evolution of Free Black Towns in the Spanish Circum-Caribhean




Manuel's Worlds: Black Yucatan and the Colonial Caribbean




Los esclavos de su Magestad: Slave Protest and Politics in Late Colonial New Granada




"The Defects of Being a Black Creole": The Degrees of African Identity in the Cuban Cabildos de Nacion, 1790-1820




Cantos and Quilombos: A Hausa Rebellion in Bahia, 1814




"The Fruit of Freedom": Slaves and Citizens in Early Republican Argentina



Glossary


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