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050 00 $aF1386.9.B55$bB46 2003
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100 1 $aBennett, Herman L.$q(Herman Lee),$d1964-
245 10 $aAfricans in Colonial Mexico :$babsolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640 /$cHerman L. Bennett.
260 $aBloomington :$bIndiana University Press,$cc2003.
300 $ax, 275 p. :$bmaps ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aBlacks in the diaspora
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-272) and index.
505 0 $aAfricans, absolutism, and archives -- Soiled gods and the formation of a slave society -- Grand remedy: Africans and Christian conjugality -- Policing christians: persons of African descent before the inquisition and ecclesiastical courts -- Christian matrimony and the boundaries of African self fashioning -- Between property and person: jurisdictional conflicts over marriage -- Creoles and Christian narratives.
520 1 $a"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.
520 8 $aBennett 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.
650 0 $aBlacks$zMexico$zMexico City$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aBlacks$xMarriage customs and rites$zMexico$zMexico City.
651 0 $aMexico$xHistory$ySpanish colony, 1540-1810.
650 0 $aAcculturation$zMexico$xHistory.
650 0 $aChurch and state$zMexico$xHistory.
650 0 $aSlavery and the church$zMexico$xHistory.
650 0 $aEcclesiastical law$zMexico$xHistory.
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