Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de Los Ángeles, 1531-1706

ISBN-13: 9781108419819 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 242 str.

Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva

Opis

Focuses on enslaved families and their social networks in the city of Puebla de los Angeles in seventeenth century colonial Mexico.

Spis treści

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.