Transatlantic bondage : slavery and freedom in Spain, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico / edited by Lissette Acosta Corniel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Acosta Corniel, Lissette, 1977- editor.

Series:

SUNY series, Afro-Latinx futures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Spain--History.

Slavery--Hispaniola--History.

Slavery--Puerto Rico--History.

Enslaved persons--Spain--History.

Enslaved persons--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo--History.

Enslaved persons--Hispaniola--History.

Enslaved persons--Puerto Rico--History.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xi, 291 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York, [2024]

Summary:

"A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Spanish slave legislation : from slavery to abolition in Spain and the Americas / Aurelia Martín Casares

Legislation and slavery from a local perspective : slave in the municipal ordinances of Extremadura, 1500-1800 / Rocío Periáñez Gomez

Slavery and the pursuit of freedom in sixteenth-century Santo Domingo / Richard Lee Titus

African slavery and laws in La Española : the beginnings of modern colonization in the Americas (1520s-1540s) / Anthony R. Stevens-Acevedo

Black women in sixteenth-century Santo Domingo : free, enslaved, founders, and explorers / Lissette Acosta Corniel

Transgressing social, gender, and sexual norms in colonial Santo Domingo (1716-1719) / Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco

Fostering a sense of community in seventeenth-century Puerto Rico : the godparenthood of enslaved infants, children, and adult in San Juan, 1672-1706 / David M. Stark

A tradition of contraband : secreting and silencing the illegal importation and exploitation of enslaved Africans in Spanish colonial Puerto Rico / Jorge L. Chinea.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438497938

1438497938

OCLC:

1423262897