| Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 Contributor(s): Bennett, Herman L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 025321775X ISBN-13: 9780253217752 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $25.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2005 Annotation: "This book charts new directions in thinking about the construction of new world identities.... Bennett does a masterful job." -- Judith A. Byfield, Dartmouth In this study of the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New World, Herman L. Bennett has uncovered much new information about the lives of slave and free blacks, the ways that their lives were regulated by the government and the Church, the impact upon them of the Inquisition, their legal status in marriage, and their rights and obligations as Christian subjects. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Mexico - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Minority Studies |
| Dewey: 972.004 |
| Series: Blacks in the Diaspora |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 228 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican - Ethnic Orientation - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book charts new directions in thinking about the construction of new world identities. . . . Bennett does a masterful job. --Judith A. Byfield, Dartmouth In this study of the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New World, Herman L. Bennett has uncovered much new information about the lives of slave and free blacks, the ways that their lives were regulated by the government and the Church, the impact upon them of the Inquisition, their legal status in marriage, and their rights and obligations as Christian subjects. |