Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century

ISBN-13: 9781009180313 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 344 str.

Joseph M. H. (University of Kentucky) Clark

Opis

Explores how Veracruz's Afro-Mexican residents drew on Caribbean relationships to define a distinctive social and cultural community.

Recenzje

'This excellent, long-awaited study breaks new ground by examining seventeenth-century Mexico in relation to the Spanish Caribbean. Creatively employing an impressive range of disparate sources, Clark opens multiple new ways of envisioning early colonial Veracruz as a Black and Caribbean space.' David Wheat, author of Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570–1640

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Building the Mexican-Caribbean World: 1. Veracruz before the Caribbean; 2. Environment, health, and race, 1599–1697; 3. Imperial designs and regional systems; 4. The large- and small-scale introduction of Africans to Veracruz; Part II. The Caribbean in Veracruz: 5. After the slave trade: nation, ethnicity, and mobility after 1640; 6. Practice and community in a spiritual borderland; 7. Caribbean defenses, the free-black militia, and regional consciousness; Conclusion: the Mexican Archipelago; Appendices.