Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico : Puebla de los Ángeles, 1531-1706 / Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sierra Silva, Pablo Miguel, author.

Series:

Cambridge Latin American studies ; 109.

Cambridge Latin American Studies ; [109]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza--History--17th century.

Puebla de Zaragoza (Mexico)--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Using the city of Puebla de los Ángeles, 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.

Contents:

Early Puebla and the question of labor, 1531-1570

Ambition and agency in the obraje

Captive souls: nuns and slaves in the convents of Puebla

The Puebla slave market, 1600-1700

Life in the big city: mobility, social networks and family

The other market: commerce and opportunity.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2018).

ISBN:

1-108-32955-1

1-108-30424-9

1-108-33099-1