Slaves, Subjects, And Subversives : Blacks in Colonial Latin America

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX INTRODUCTION 1(8) Jane G. Landers CHAPTER ONE The Context of Enslavement in West Africa Ahmad Baba and the Ethics of Slavery 9(30) Paul E. Lovejoy CHAPTER TWO Boiling It Down Slavery on the First Commercial Sugarcane Ingenios in the Americas (Hispaniola, 1530-45) 39(44) Lynne Guitar CHAPTER THREE Central Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade 83(28) John K. Thornton CHAPTER FOUR Cimarr n and Citizen African Ethnicity, Corporate Identity, and the Evolution of Free Black Towns in the Spanish Circum-Caribbean 111(36) Jane G. Landers CHAPTER FIVE Manuets Worlds Black Yucatan and the Colonial Caribbean 147(28) Matthew Restall CHAPTER SIX Los esciavos de su Magestad Slave Protest and Politics in Late Colonial New Granada 175(34) Ren Soulodre-La France CHAPTER SEVEN "The Defects of Being a Black Creole" The Degrees of African Identity in the Cuban Cabildos, de Naci n, 1700-1820 209(38) Matt D. Childs CHAPTER EIGHT Cantos and Quilombos A Hausa Rebellion in Bahia, 1814 247(26) Stuart B. Schwartz CHAPTER NINE "The Fruit of Freedom" Slaves and Citizens in Early Republican Argentina 273(34) Seth Meisel GLOSSARY 307(2) CONTRIBUTORS 309(1) INDEX 310