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Blacks in the Diaspora Ser.: Africans in Colonial Mexico : Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 by Herman L. Bennett (2005, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherIndiana University Press
ISBN-10025321775X
ISBN-139780253217752
eBay Product ID (ePID)25038250225
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Number of Pages228 Pages
Publication NameAfricans in Colonial Mexico : Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
SubjectLatin America / Mexico, Christian Church / History, Sociology / General, Christian Church / Canon & Ecclesiastical Law, Black Studies (Global), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReligion, Social Science, History
AuthorHerman L. Bennett
SeriesBlacks in the Diaspora Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight15.4 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Bennett (Rutgers Univ.) relies on church records, especially marriage licenses and Inquisition prosecutions, to reveal aspects of the social and legal lives of Africans and their descendants, slave and free, in colonial Mexico. He begins by establishing the scale of the African presence, saying that Africans outnumbered Spaniards and that early New Spain's black population was larger than Brazil's. He notes, as others have, that Africans participated in the conquest and often served in an intermediary role, supervising indigenous labor and Hispanicizing the Indians. Bennett focuses not on work or living conditions, but on Africans' ability to manipulate power through their understanding of the law. Blacks, being Christians and thus considered persons with souls, enjoyed certain rights. For example, the church granted them the right of conjugality, which superceded their masters' property rights. Africans, Bennett argues, took advantage of these limited rights to make lives for themselves. By manipulating the interstices between canon and property law, Africans carved out niches for themselves and made their lives better. This thorough study informs on a number of historical fields, including the history of slavery, diaspora studies, identity, Spanish imperial history, church history, creolization, and the Hispanicization of Indians. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and faculty." -S. A. Harmon, Pittsburg State University, Choice, February 2004, "... a remarkable feat in reconstituting the lives of New Spain's early African population... and in offering a new vantage point from which to study this important component of the African Diaspora." -- net, "Africans in Colonial Mexico by Herman Bennett marks a major advance in the still underdeveloped field of Afro-Mexican history by using Inquisition records to investigate Afro-Creole consciousness in the mature colonial period." 'e"Latin American Research Review, "Bennett (Rutgers Univ.) relies on church records, especially marriage licenses and Inquisition prosecutions, to reveal aspects of the social and legal lives of Africans and their descendants, slave and free, in colonial Mexico. He begins by establishing the scale of the African presence, saying that Africans outnumbered Spaniards and that early New Spain's black population was larger than Brazil's. He notes, as others have, that Africans participated in the conquest and often served in an intermediary role, supervising indigenous labor and Hispanicizing the Indians. Bennett focuses not on work or living conditions, but on Africans' ability to manipulate power through their understanding of the law. Blacks, being Christians and thus considered persons with souls, enjoyed certain rights. For example, the church granted them the right of conjugality, which superceded their masters' property rights. Africans, Bennett argues, took advantage of these limited rights to make lives for themselves. By manipulating the interstices between canon and property law, Africans carved out niches for themselves and made their lives better. This thorough study informs on a number of historical fields, including the history of slavery, diaspora studies, identity, Spanish imperial history, church history, creolization, and the Hispanicization of Indians. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.February 2004"--S. A. Harmon, Pittsburg State University "Africans in Colonial Mexico by Herman Bennett marks a major advance in the still underdeveloped field of Afro-Mexican history by using Inquisition records to investigate Afro-Creole consciousness in the mature colonial period.40.3 2005"-- Latin American Research Review "..Bennett's book represents a significant contribution to the scholarship on the African experience in colonial Mexico and to our understanding of the interface between the public domain of church and state and the private one of personal lives."-- net ". . . a remarkable feat in reconstituting the lives of New Spain's early African population . . . and in offering a new vantage point from which to study this important component of the African Diaspora."-- net, Bennett (Rutgers Univ.) relies on church records, especially marriage licenses and Inquisition prosecutions, to reveal aspects of the social and legal lives of Africans and their descendants, slave and free, in colonial Mexico. He begins by establishing the scale of the African presence, saying that Africans outnumbered Spaniards and that early New Spain's black population was larger than Brazil's. He notes, as others have, that Africans participated in the conquest and often served in an intermediary role, supervising indigenous labor and Hispanicizing the Indians. Bennett focuses not on work or living conditions, but on Africans' ability to manipulate power through their understanding of the law. Blacks, being Christians and thus considered persons with souls, enjoyed certain rights. For example, the church granted them the right of conjugality, which superceded their masters' property rights. Africans, Bennett argues, took advantage of these limited rights to make lives for themselves. By manipulating the interstices between canon and property law, Africans carved out niches for themselves and made their lives better. This thorough study informs on a number of historical fields, including the history of slavery, diaspora studies, identity, Spanish imperial history, church history, creolization, and the Hispanicization of Indians. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.--S. A. Harmon, Pittsburg State University"Choice" (01/01/2004), "..Bennett's book represents a significant contribution to the scholarship on the African experience in colonial Mexico and to our understanding of the interface between the public domain of church and state and the private one of personal lives." -- net, ..Bennett's book represents a significant contribution to the scholarship on the African experience in colonial Mexico and to our understanding of the interface between the public domain of church and state and the private one of personal lives., ... a remarkable feat in reconstituting the lives of New Spain's early African population... and in offering a new vantage point from which to study this important component of the African Diaspora., "... a remarkable feat in reconstituting the lives of New Spain's early African population... and in offering a new vantage point from which to study this important component of the African Diaspora." -net, "Bennett (Rutgers Univ.) relies on church records, especially marriage licenses and Inquisition prosecutions, to reveal aspects of the social and legal lives of Africans and their descendants, slave and free, in colonial Mexico. He begins by establishing the scale of the African presence, saying that Africans outnumbered Spaniards and that early New Spain's black population was larger than Brazil's. He notes, as others have, that Africans participated in the conquest and often served in an intermediary role, supervising indigenous labor and Hispanicizing the Indians. Bennett focuses not on work or living conditions, but on Africans' ability to manipulate power through their understanding of the law. Blacks, being Christians and thus considered persons with souls, enjoyed certain rights. For example, the church granted them the right of conjugality, which superceded their masters' property rights. Africans, Bennett argues, took advantage of these limited rights to make lives for themselves. By manipulating the interstices between canon and property law, Africans carved out niches for themselves and made their lives better. This thorough study informs on a number of historical fields, including the history of slavery, diaspora studies, identity, Spanish imperial history, church history, creolization, and the Hispanicization of Indians. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and faculty." -- S. A. Harmon, Pittsburg State University, Choice, February 2004, "..Bennett's book represents a significant contribution to the scholarship on the African experience in colonial Mexico and to our understanding of the interface between the public domain of church and state and the private one of personal lives." -net, "This book charts new directions in thinking about the construction of new world identities. . . . Bennett does a masterful job." -Judith A. Byfield, Dartmouth
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal972/.00496
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction: Africans, Absolutism, and Archives 1.Soiled Gods and the Formation of a Slave Society 2."The Grand Remedy": Africans and Christian Conjugality 3.Policing Christians: Persons of African Descent before the Inquisition and Ecclesiastical Courts 4.Christian Matrimony and the Boundaries of African Self-Fashioning 5.Between Property and Person: Jurisdictional Conflicts over Marriage 6.Creoles and Christian Narratives Postscript Glossary Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Synopsis"This book charts new directions in thinking about the construction of new world identities.... Bennett does a masterful job." --Judith A. Byfield, Dartmouth In this study of the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New World, Herman L. Bennett has uncovered much new information about the lives of slave and free blacks, the ways that 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., Bennett has uncovered much new information about the lives of slave and free blacks, the ways that 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., "This book charts new directions in thinking about the construction of new world identities. . . . Bennett does a masterful job." --Judith A. Byfield, Dartmouth In this study of the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New World, Herman L. Bennett has uncovered much new information about the lives of slave and free blacks, the ways that 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.
LC Classification NumberF1386.9.B55B46 2005
