The capital of free women: race, legitimacy, and liberty in colonial Mexico

The Capital of Free Women' illuminates the history of how free African-descended women accumulated capital in seventeenth-century Mexico. While some women still labored as slaves, a new demographic began to emerge: free Black women of means. Free women in central Veracruz, sometimes just one ge...

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1. Verfasser: Williams, Danielle Terrazas ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven ; London Yale University Press [2022]
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Zusammenfassung:The Capital of Free Women' illuminates the history of how free African-descended women accumulated capital in seventeenth-century Mexico. While some women still labored as slaves, a new demographic began to emerge: free Black women of means. Free women in central Veracruz, sometimes just one generation removed from slavery, purchased land, ran businesses, served as influential matriarchs, managed intergenerational wealth, and even owned slaves of African descent. Using the notarial archives of the region, as well as royal edicts and ecclesiastical sources, Danielle Terrazas Williams explores the lives of Black women across the economic spectrum, evaluates their elite sensibilities, and challenges notions of race and class in the colonial period. More broadly, she asks readers to consider how colonial institutions imagined marginalized people and how race and gender influenced how people navigated imperial demands and religious expectations
Beschreibung:xiii, 282 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9780300258066

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