| Description |
xxxvii, 377 p. : maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The treason of Dom Pedro Nkanga a Mvemba against Dom Diogo, King of Kongo, 1550 / John K. Thornton, Linda Heywood -- Maroon Chief Alonso de Illescas' letter to the Crown, 1586 / Charles Beatty-Medina -- Queen Njinga Mbandi Ana de Sousa of Ndongo/Matamba: African leadership, diplomacy, and ideology, 1620s-1650s / Linda Heywood ; document translation by Luis Madureira -- Afro-Iberian subjects: petitioning the Crown at home, serving the Crown abroad, 1590s-1630s / Leo J. Garofalo -- Elder, slave, and soldier: maroon voices from the Palenque del Limon, 1634 / Kathryn Joy McKnight -- Juan Roque's donation of a house to the Zape confraternity, Mexico City, 1623 / Nicole von Germeten -- Death, gender, and writing: testaments of women of African origin in seventeenth-century Lima, 1651-1666 / Jose R. Jouve-Martin -- To live as a pueblo: a contentious endeavor, El Cobre, Cuba, 1670s-1790s / Maria Elena Diaz -- The making of a free Lucumi household: Ana de la Calle's will and goods, northern Peruvian coast, 1719 / Rachel Sarah O'Toole -- "El rey de los congos": the clandestine coronation of Pedro Duarte in Buenos Aires, 1787 / Patricia Fogelman ... [et al.] -- The witchcraft trials of Paula de Eguiluz, a black woman, in Cartagena de Indias, 1620-1636 / Sara Vicuņa Guengerich -- A Spanish Caribbean captivity narrative: African sailors and Puritan slavers, 1635 / David Wheat -- The saint's life of Sister Chicaba, c. 1676-1748: an as-told-to slave narrative / Sue E. Houchins, Baltasar Fra-Molinero -- The regent, the secretary, and the widow: power, ethnicity, and gender in the confraternity of Saints Elesbão and Iphigenia, Rio de Janeiro, 1784-1786 / Elizabeth W. Kiddy -- Confessing sodomy, accusing a master: the Lisbon trial of Pernambuco's Luiz da Costa, 1743 / Richard A. Gordon -- Slavery, writing, and female resistance: Black women litigants in Lima's late colonial tribunals of the 1780s / Maribel Arrelucea Barrantes ... [et al.] -- The case of Javier, Esclavo, against his master for cruel punishment, San Juan, Argentina, 1795 / Ana Teresa Fanchin ... [et al.] -- In the royal service of Spain: the milicianos Morenos Manuel and Antonio Perez during the Napoleonic Invasion, 1808-1812 / Jorge L. Chinea. |
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African diaspora -- History -- Sources.
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Africans -- Latin America -- History -- Sources.
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Africans -- Latin America -- Social life and customs -- Sources.
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Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- Sources.
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Portugal -- Colonies -- America -- History -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
McKnight, Kathryn Joy, 1961-
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Garofalo, Leo.
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| ISBN |
9780872209930 (pbk.) |
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0872209938 (pbk.) |
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9780872209947 (cloth) |
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0872209946 (cloth) |
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