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"Colonial Mexico was home to the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New World. This book is a study of this population, chiefly in the Mexico City area. It looks at the ways in which slaves and free blacks learned to make their way in a culture of state and religious absolutism. Herman L. Bennett is particularly interested in the way blacks learned to use Spanish and ecclesiastical legal institutions to create a semblance of cultural autonomy, while at the same time enmeshing themselves and their descendants with the dominant culture. This distinctive aspect of Afro-Mexican creolization in an absolutist culture has been little studied.
Bennett has gone to the secular and ecclesiastical court records and teased out much new information about the lives of slaves and free blacks, the ways in which their lives were regulated by the government and the Church, the impact upon them of the Inquisition, their legal status in marriage, and their rights and obligations as Christian subjects."--Jacket.
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Acculturation, Blacks, Slavery and the church, Church and state, Ecclesiastical law, Marriage customs and rites, Social conditions, History, Blacks, mexico, Church and state, mexico, Mexico, history, spanish colony, 1540-1810, Black people, Noirs, Conditions sociales, Rites et cérémonies du mariage, Histoire, Église et État, Esclavage, Aspect religieux, Droit ecclésiastique, Kolonisierung, Ethnische Identität, Afrikanen, Kolonialisme, Etnische betrekkingenShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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Africans In Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, And Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
February 2005, Indiana University Press
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Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
June 2003, Indiana University Press
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Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640
2003, Indiana University Press
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