The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, And Spaniards In Colonial Yucatan

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Winner of the Conference on Latin American History''s 2010 Mexican History Book Prize.The Black Middle is the first full-length study of black African slaves and other people of African descent in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan

• The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, And Spaniards In Colonial Yucatan available on December 03 2016 from Indigo for 84.5
  
• ISBN bar code 9780804749831 ξ1 registered December 03 2016
  
• Product category is Book

• Sku # 978080474983
  

Matthew Restall makes expert use of Spanish and Maya language documents from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, found in a dozen different archives. His goal is to discover what life was like for a people hitherto ignored by historians. He explores such topics as slavery and freedom, militia service and family life, bigamy and witchcraft, and the ways in which Afro-Yucatecans (as he dubs them) interacted with Mayas and Spaniards. Restall concludes that, in numerous ways, Afro-Yucatecans lived and worked in a middle space between—but closely connected to—Mayas and Spaniards. The book''s black middle thesis has profound implications for the study of Africans throughout the Americas.

^ The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, And Spaniards In Colonial Yucatan Indigo. ISBN 9780804749831 (revised Dec 2016)