Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Building the Mexican-Caribbean World -- 1 Veracruz Before the Caribbean -- 2 Environment, Health, and Race, 1599-1697 -- 3 Imperial Designs and Regional Systems -- 4 The Large and Small-Scale Introduction of Africans to Veracruz -- Part II The Caribbean in Veracruz -- 5 After the Slave Trade: Nation, Ethnicity, and Mobility After 1640
6 Practice and Community in a Spiritual Borderland -- 7 Caribbean Defenses, the Free-Black Militia, and Regional Consciousness -- Conclusion: The Mexican Archipelago -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Explores how Veracruz's Afro-Mexican residents drew on Caribbean relationships to define a distinctive social and cultural community