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Taxing blackness : free Afromexican tribute in Bourbon New Spain /

A definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexicans During the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of Africans in Mexico faced a highly specific obligation to the Spanish crown, a tax based on their genealogy and status. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gharala, Norah L. A. (Norah Linda Andrews), 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2019]
Series:Atlantic crossings.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Tribute and calidad in the Spanish Empire
  • Revitalization and reaction : Afromexican tribute before 1763
  • Sons of Hidalgos or ringleaders of the Indians : defining tributary genealogies
  • Imperial knowledge and the expansion of tribute
  • Mapping community on the Afromexican tribute register
  • Genealogy and disputed tributary status.