Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 /

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This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade. After the catastrophic decline of Amerindian...

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Main Author: Wheat, David, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social sciences.
HISTORY > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
social sciences.
Sciences sociales.
Social Sciences
Black people > Caribbean Area > 16th century.
Black people > Caribbean Area > 17th century.
Slavery > Caribbean Area > 16th century.
Slavery > Caribbean Area > 17th century.
Slave trade > Africa, West > History > 16th century.
Slave trade > Africa, West > History > 17th century.
Atlantic Coast (Africa) > History > 16th century.
Atlantic Coast (Africa) > History > 17th century.
Spain > Colonies > Caribbean Area > History > 16th century.
Spain > Colonies > Caribbean Area > History > 17th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The rivers of Guinea
  • The kingdoms of Angola
  • Tangomãos and Luso-Africans
  • Nharas and Morenas Horras
  • Black peasants
  • Becoming "Latin"
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1. Population estimates, circa 1600
  • Appendix 2. Bishop Córdoba Ronquillo's proposed sites for agregaciones in Cartagena's Province, 1634
  • Appendix 3. Africans, Afrocreoles, Iberians, and others baptized in Havana's Iglesia Mayor, 1590-1600
  • Appendix 4. Sub-Saharan Africans baptized in Havana by ethnonym and year, 1590-1600
  • Appendix 5. Free people of color in Havana's baptismal records, 1590-1600.

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