Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico - Puebla De Los Angeles, 1531-1706

Focuses on enslaved families and their social networks in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles in seventeenth-century colonial Mexico.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Summary

Using the city of Puebla de los Ángeles, the second-largest urban center in colonial Mexico, Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva investigates the experiences of slaves in the seventeenth century. As a social and cultural history, it addresses how enslaved people formed families and social networks to contest their bondage.

Product details

• Authors: Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva, Pablo Miguel (University of Rocheste Sierra Silva, Pablo Miguel (University of Rochester Sierra Silva
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781108419819
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41981-9
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies; Cambridge Latin American Studi; Cambridge Latin American Studies; Cambridge Latin American Studi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Mexico, Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Latin America / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Slavery & abolition of slavery, History and Archaeology, Hispanic & Latino Studies, Slavery and abolition of slavery