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He wrote the book, Mexico South: The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, condemning policies that would relegate people of color to a kind of second class citizenship and perpetuate fascist ideologies. [citation needed] Covarrubias held that understanding the history of Africanism in Mexico was a key part of understanding Mexico as a whole. After 1945 ...
A History of Slavery in Cuba, 1511-1868. New York: Octagon Books 1967. Bennett, Herman Lee. Africans in Colonial Mexico. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2005. Blanchard, Peter, Under the flags of freedom : slave soldiers and the wars of independence in Spanish South America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2008. Bowser ...
Black slavery still existed as an institution, although the numbers of enslaved had declined from the high point in the 1600s, when the Atlantic slave trade had brought enslaved Africans to Spanish America. For the period 1580-1640, Spain and Portugal were ruled by the same monarch and Portuguese slave dealers could freely operate in Spanish ...
Anyone could be a slave, though commoners were more likely to enter slavery voluntarily. But, because slaves were looked down upon, it was usually the last option one took to pay off a debt. [2] Besides gamblers, selling oneself into slavery was often a fate for ageing courtesans or prostitutes, known among the Mexica as "tahini". Beyond paying ...
Gaspar Yanga — often simply Yanga or Nyanga (May 14, 1545 – 1618) [1] was an African who led a maroon colony of enslaved Africans in the highlands near Veracruz, Mexico (then New Spain) during the early period of Spanish colonial rule. He successfully resisted a Spanish attack on the colony in 1609.
The Mascogos (also known as negros mascagos) are an Afro-descendant [1] group in Coahuila, Mexico. Centered on the town of El Nacimiento in Múzquiz Municipality , the group are descendants of Black Seminoles escaping the threat of slavery in the United States .
The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. [1]
A History of Slavery in Cuba 1511 to 1868, New York, NY : Octagon Books Inc, 1967. Bennett, Herman Lee. Africans in Colonial Mexico. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Blackburn, Robin. The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern,1492-1800. New York: Verso 1997.