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As If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty-four
women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed
women sought, imagined, and found freedom from the sixteenth
through the nineteenth centuries in the Americas. Our biographical
approach allows readers to view large social processes - migration,
trade, enslavement, emancipation - through the perspective of
individual women moving across the boundaries of slavery and
freedom. For some women, freedom meant liberation and legal
protection from slavery, while others focused on gaining economic,
personal, political, and social rights. Rather than simply defining
emancipation as a legal status that was conferred by those in
authority and framing women as passive recipients of freedom, these
life stories demonstrate that women were agents of emancipation,
claiming free status in the courts, fighting for liberty, and
defining and experiencing freedom in a surprising and inspiring
range of ways.
As If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty-four
women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed
women sought, imagined, and found freedom from the sixteenth
through the nineteenth centuries in the Americas. Our biographical
approach allows readers to view large social processes - migration,
trade, enslavement, emancipation - through the perspective of
individual women moving across the boundaries of slavery and
freedom. For some women, freedom meant liberation and legal
protection from slavery, while others focused on gaining economic,
personal, political, and social rights. Rather than simply defining
emancipation as a legal status that was conferred by those in
authority and framing women as passive recipients of freedom, these
life stories demonstrate that women were agents of emancipation,
claiming free status in the courts, fighting for liberty, and
defining and experiencing freedom in a surprising and inspiring
range of ways.
Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics traces the linked history of
the new nations of Mexico and the United States from the 1770s to
the 1860s. Tatiana Seijas and Jake Frederick highlight the common
challenges facing both countries in their early decades of
independence by exploring the creation of coin money. The
remarkable story begins when both countries chose the Spanish piece
of eight (silver coin) as their monetary standard. The authors
examine how each nation instituted its own currency, designed coins
to represent its national ideals, and then spent decades trying to
establish the legitimacy of its money. Readers learn about the
creation and circulation of money through the stories of a banker
in Philadelphia, a Mexican general in Texas, a surveyor in Sonora,
and others. The focus on individuals provides an engaging window
into the economic history of Mexico and the United States. Seijas
and Frederick show how the creation of U.S. dollars and Mexican
pesos paralleled these countries' efforts to establish enduring
political and economic systems, illustrating why these nations
closed the nineteenth century on very different historical
trajectories.
Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics traces the linked history of
the new nations of Mexico and the United States from the 1770s to
the 1860s. Tatiana Seijas and Jake Frederick highlight the common
challenges facing both countries in their early decades of
independence by exploring the creation of coin money. The
remarkable story begins when both countries chose the Spanish piece
of eight (silver coin) as their monetary standard. The authors
examine how each nation instituted its own currency, designed coins
to represent its national ideals, and then spent decades trying to
establish the legitimacy of its money. Readers learn about the
creation and circulation of money through the stories of a banker
in Philadelphia, a Mexican general in Texas, a surveyor in Sonora,
and others. The focus on individuals provides an engaging window
into the economic history of Mexico and the United States. Seijas
and Frederick show how the creation of U.S. dollars and Mexican
pesos paralleled these countries' efforts to establish enduring
political and economic systems, illustrating why these nations
closed the nineteenth century on very different historical
trajectories.
During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless
slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian
subcontinent and Southeast Asia journeyed to Mexico on the ships of
the Manila Galleon. Upon arrival in Mexico, they were grouped
together and categorized as chinos. Their experience illustrates
the interconnectedness of Spain s colonies and the reach of the
crown, which brought people together from Africa, the Americas,
Asia and Europe in a historically unprecedented way. In time,
chinos in Mexico came to be treated under the law as Indians,
becoming indigenous vassals of the Spanish crown after 1672. The
implications of this legal change were enormous: as Indians, rather
than chinos, they could no longer be held as slaves. Tatiana Seijas
tracks chinos complex journey from the slave market in Manila to
the streets of Mexico City, and from bondage to liberty. In doing
so, she challenges commonly held assumptions about the uniformity
of the slave experience in the Americas."
During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless
slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian
subcontinent and Southeast Asia journeyed to Mexico on the ships of
the Manila Galleon. Upon arrival in Mexico, they were grouped
together and categorized as chinos. Their experience illustrates
the interconnectedness of Spain s colonies and the reach of the
crown, which brought people together from Africa, the Americas,
Asia and Europe in a historically unprecedented way. In time,
chinos in Mexico came to be treated under the law as Indians,
becoming indigenous vassals of the Spanish crown after 1672. The
implications of this legal change were enormous: as Indians, rather
than chinos, they could no longer be held as slaves. Tatiana Seijas
tracks chinos complex journey from the slave market in Manila to
the streets of Mexico City, and from bondage to liberty. In doing
so, she challenges commonly held assumptions about the uniformity
of the slave experience in the Americas."
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