Africans In Colonial Mexico
Subtitle: Absolutism, Christianity, And Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: February 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780253217752
Subjects: Black studies; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; USA; Ethnic Studies - General; Latin America - Mexico; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
First sentence: In 1640, the year the Portuguese slave trade to Spanish America ended, the Kingdom of New Spain (colonial Mexico) contained the second-largest population of enslaved Africans and the greatest number of free blacks in the Americas.