Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social
history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial
Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa
to the New World. Tracing the experiences of Africans on two Danish
slave ships that arrived in Costa Rica in 1710, the
ChristianusQuintus and FredericusQuartus, the author examines
slavery in Costa Rica from 1600 to 1750. Lohse looks at the ethnic
origins of the Africans and narrates their capture and transport to
the coast, their embarkation and passage, and finally their
acculturation to slavery and their lives as slaves in Costa Rica.
Following the experiences of girls and boys, women and men, he
shows how the conditions of slavery in a unique local setting
determined the constraints that slaves faced and how they responded
to their condition.
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