Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Ángeles, 1531–1706: 109 (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 109)
Cambridge University Press, 4/5/2018
EAN 9781108419819, ISBN10: 110841981X
Hardcover, 242 pages, 23.5 x 19.5 x 2.2 cm
Language: English
Using the city of Puebla de los ÃÂngeles, 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.
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.