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The Black Middle - Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan (Paperback)
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The Black Middle - Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan (Paperback)
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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. 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.
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