Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico
Title | Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2018-04-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110841981X |
Focuses on enslaved families and their social networks in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles in seventeenth-century colonial Mexico.
Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico
Title | Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Tatiana Seijas |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 301 |
Release | 2014-06-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1139952854 |
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.
Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650–1755
Title | Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650–1755 PDF eBook |
Author | Christoph Rosenmüller |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 363 |
Release | 2019-05-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108477119 |
Provides the first detailed analysis of the evolution of the concept of corruption in colonial Mexico.
South to Freedom
Title | South to Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Alice L Baumgartner |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 2020-11-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1541617770 |
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.
Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico
Title | Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Tatiana Seijas |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 301 |
Release | 2014-06-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107063124 |
This book is a history of Asian slaves in colonial Mexico and their journey from bondage to freedom.
Colonial Blackness
Title | Colonial Blackness PDF eBook |
Author | Herman L. Bennett |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2009-07-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 025300361X |
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.
Before Mestizaje
Title | Before Mestizaje PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Vinson III |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 317 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107026431 |
This book deepens our understanding of race and the implications of racial mixture by examining the history of caste in colonial Mexico.