Africans in Colonial Mexico : absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640 /
"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 absolutis...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | Blacks in the diaspora.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=92044 |
Table of Contents:
- Soiled Gods and the Formation of a Slave Society
- "The Grand Remedy"
- Policing Christians
- Christian Matrimony and the Boundaries of African Self- Fashioning
- Between Property and Person
- Creoles and Christian Narratives.