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- catalog abstract ""Colonial Mexico was home to the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New World. This book is a study of this population, chiefly in the Mexico City area. It looks at the ways in which slaves and free blacks learned to make their way in a culture of state and religious absolutism. Herman L. Bennett is particularly interested in the way blacks learned to use Spanish and ecclesiastical legal institutions to create a semblance of cultural autonomy, while at the same time enmeshing themselves and their descendants with the dominant culture. This distinctive aspect of Afro-Mexican creolization in an absolutist culture has been little studied. Bennett has gone to the secular and ecclesiastical court records and teased out much new information about the lives of slaves and free blacks, the ways in which 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b12882605.
- catalog coverage "Mexico History Spanish colony, 1540-1810.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Colonial Mexico was home to the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New World. This book is a study of this population, chiefly in the Mexico City area. It looks at the ways in which slaves and free blacks learned to make their way in a culture of state and religious absolutism. Herman L. Bennett is particularly interested in the way blacks learned to use Spanish and ecclesiastical legal institutions to create a semblance of cultural autonomy, while at the same time enmeshing themselves and their descendants with the dominant culture. This distinctive aspect of Afro-Mexican creolization in an absolutist culture has been little studied.".
- catalog description "Africans, absolutism, and archives -- Soiled gods and the formation of a slave society -- Grand remedy: Africans and Christian conjugality -- Policing christians: persons of African descent before the inquisition and ecclesiastical courts -- Christian matrimony and the boundaries of African self fashioning -- Between property and person: jurisdictional conflicts over marriage -- Creoles and Christian narratives.".
- catalog description "Bennett has gone to the secular and ecclesiastical court records and teased out much new information about the lives of slaves and free blacks, the ways in which 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-272) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 275 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0253342368 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Blacks in the diaspora".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Mexico History Spanish colony, 1540-1810.".
- catalog spatial "Mexico Mexico City".
- catalog spatial "Mexico Mexico City.".
- catalog spatial "Mexico".
- catalog subject "972/.00496 21".
- catalog subject "Acculturation Mexico History.".
- catalog subject "Blacks Marriage customs and rites Mexico Mexico City.".
- catalog subject "Blacks Mexico Mexico City Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Church and state Mexico History.".
- catalog subject "Ecclesiastical law Mexico History.".
- catalog subject "F1386.9.B55 B46 2003".
- catalog subject "Slavery and the church Mexico History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Africans, absolutism, and archives -- Soiled gods and the formation of a slave society -- Grand remedy: Africans and Christian conjugality -- Policing christians: persons of African descent before the inquisition and ecclesiastical courts -- Christian matrimony and the boundaries of African self fashioning -- Between property and person: jurisdictional conflicts over marriage -- Creoles and Christian narratives.".
- catalog title "Africans in Colonial Mexico : absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640 / Herman L. Bennett.".
- catalog type "text".