Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva

Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico (eBook, PDF)

Puebla de los Angeles, 1531-1706

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Produktbeschreibung

Using the city of Puebla de los Angeles, the second-largest urban center in colonial Mexico (viceroyalty of New Spain), Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva investigates Spaniards' imposition of slavery on Africans, Asians, and their families. He analyzes the experiences of these slaves in four distinct urban settings: the marketplace, the convent, the textile mill, and the elite residence. In so doing, Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico advances a new understanding of how, when, and why transatlantic and transpacific merchant networks converged in Central Mexico during the seventeenth century. As a social and cultural history, it also addresses how enslaved people formed social networks to contest their bondage. Sierra Silva challenges readers to understand the everyday nature of urban slavery and engages the rich Spanish and indigenous history of the Puebla region while intertwining it with African diaspora studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108330992
• Artikelnr.: 53385831

Autorenporträt

Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Rochester, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures, tables, maps and documents
Archival references
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Early Puebla and the question of labor
2. Ambition, agency and abuse: the textile mills of Puebla
3. Captive souls: nuns and slaves in the convents of Puebla
4. The Puebla slave market, 1600-1700
5. Life in the big city: mobility, social networks, and family
6. The other market: commerce and opportunity
Epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.