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Author Bryant, Sherwin K., author.

Title Rivers of gold, lives of bondage : governing through slavery in colonial Quito / Sherwin K. Bryant
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (497 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Slavery and governance -- Chapter One: Slavery and colonial development -- Chapter Two: Marking bodies: brands, baptism, and the body as text -- Chapter Three: Baptism, marriage, and the formation of sacred communities -- Chapter Four: Enslaved rebels, fugitives, and litigants -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage: Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 13, 2016)
Subject Africans -- Quito (Audiencia) -- History
Enslaved persons -- Colonization -- Quito (Audiencia) -- History
Slavery -- Quito (Audiencia) -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
Africans
Politics and government
Slavery
SUBJECT Quito (Audiencia) -- History
Quito (Audiencia) -- Politics and government
Subject South America -- Quito (Audiencia)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469608259
1469608251
9781469607733
1469607735