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Title At the heart of the borderlands : Africans and Afro-descendants on the edges of colonial Spanish America / edited by Cameron D. Jones and Jay T. Harrison
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 222 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Diálagos series
Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Contents Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "Se Llaman Gente de Razón": Afro-Descendants in Early Spanish California, 1769-1821 by Cameron D. Jones -- Chapter 2. Black Fugitive Strategies: Slavery and Self-Emancipation in the Spanish Gulf Coast Borderlands by Christina Marie Villarreal -- Chapter 3. The Moving Border: Black Experiences in CaribbeanFrontiers and North American Borderlands in the Late Seventeenth Century by Joseph M. H. Clark
Chapter 4. The Case of María Faustina Trejo: Fluid Racial Categories in Jalisco's Highlands, 1781-1815 by Anne M. Reid -- Chapter 5. From Slavery to Citizenship? San Benito, Sanctuary Policy,and the Law on the Ground by Mark W. Lentz -- Chapter 6. "Lords of the Land": Maroon challenges to Spanish Sovereignty in Panama and Hispaniola, 1520-1610 by Robert C. Schwaller -- Chapter 7. Mine Owners, Moneylenders, Enslavers, and Litigants: Free-Black Miners and Black Mining Dynasties in the Colombian Chocó,1744-1784 by Juliet Wiersema
Chapter 8. African Maroons and Native Peoples on the "Atlantic" Borderlands of Colonial Quito by Charles Beatty-Medina -- Chapter 9. Fugitive Time, Space, and Refusal in the Pacific Andes by Rachel Sarah O'Toole -- Chapter 10. Aqueous and Dry Borderlands: Africans and Their Descendants in Colonial Rio de la Plata by Alex Borucki -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 24, 2023)
Subject Africans -- New Spain -- History
Africans -- New Spain -- Social conditions
Africans
Africans -- Social conditions
New Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Jones, Cameron D., editor.
Harrison, Jay T., editor.
LC no. 2022027175
ISBN 0826364772
9780826364777
Other Titles Africans and Afro-descendants on the edges of colonial Spanish America