
Transatlantic Bondage
Slavery and Freedom in Spain, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico
- 288 pages
- English
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Transatlantic Bondage
Slavery and Freedom in Spain, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico
About this book
A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.
This groundbreaking volume addresses the enslavement and experiences of Black Africans in Spain and the Spanish Caribbean, particularly La Española (or Hispaniola) and Puerto Rico, two of the earliest colonies. Spanning nearly four hundred years and rooted in extensive archival research, Transatlantic Bondage sheds light on a number of relatively underexamined topics in these locales, including the development and application of slavery laws, disobedience and its consequences, migration, gender, family, lifestyle, and community building among the free Black population and white allies. In bringing together new and recent work by leading scholars, including two essays translated into English here for the first time, the book is also a call for further study of slavery in the Spanish Caribbean and its impact on the region.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Spanish Slave Legislation: From Slavery to Abolition in Spain and the Americas
- Chapter 2 Legislation and Slavery from a Local Perspective: Slaves in the Municipal Ordinances of Extremadura, 1500–1800
- Chapter 3 Slavery and the Pursuit of Freedom in Sixteenth-Century Santo Domingo
- Chapter 4 African Slavery and Laws in La Española: The Beginnings of Modern Colonization in the Americas (1520s–1540s)
- Chapter 5 Black Women in Sixteenth-Century Santo Domingo: Free, Enslaved, Founders, and Explorers
- Chapter 6 Transgressing Social, Gender, and Sexual Norms in Colonial Santo Domingo (1716–1719)
- Chapter 7 Fostering a Sense of Community in Seventeenth-Century Puerto Rico: The Godparenthood of Enslaved Infants, Children, and Adults in San Juan, 1672–1706
- Chapter 8 A Tradition of Contraband: Secreting and Silencing the Illegal Importation and Exploitation of Enslaved Africans in Spanish Colonial Puerto Rico
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover