Africans in Colonial Mexico : absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640

Africans in Colonial Mexico : absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640 / Herman L. Bennett.

"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bennett, Herman L. (Herman Lee), 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2003.
Series:Blacks in the diaspora.
Subjects:
1540 - 1810
Black people > Mexico > Mexico City > Social conditions.
Acculturation > Mexico > History.
Black people > Marriage customs and rites > Mexico > Mexico City.
Church and state > Mexico > History.
Slavery and the church > Mexico > History.
Ecclesiastical law > Mexico > History.
HISTORY.
Acculturation
Black people > Social conditions
Church and state
Ecclesiastical law
Slavery and the church
Kolonisierung
Ethnische Identität
Afrikanen.
Kolonialisme.
Etnische betrekkingen.
Mexico > History > Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
Mexico
Mexico > Mexico City
Mexiko
Schwärze
Kreolen.
Electronic book.
History
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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.

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