ISBN:
0300258062
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9780300258066
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 282 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
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23 cm
DDC:
305.420972/62
Keywords:
1540-1810
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Women, Black Economic conditions 17th century
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Freed persons Economic conditions 17th century
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Women merchants 17th century
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Women, Black History 17th century
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Women slaves History 17th century
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Slavery History 17th century
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Femmes noires - Mexique - Histoire
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Femmes noires - Mexique - Veracruz (État) - Conditions économiques - 17e siècle
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Personnes affranchies - Mexique - Veracruz (État) - Conditions économiques - 17e siècle
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Commerçantes - Mexique - Veracruz (État) - Histoire - 17e siècle
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Femmes noires - Mexique - Veracruz (État) - Histoire - 17e siècle
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Freed persons - Economic conditions
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Race relations
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Women, Black
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Women, Black - Economic conditions
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Women merchants
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History
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Mexico History Spanish colony, 1540-1810
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Veracruz-Llave (Mexico : State) Race relations 17th century
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History
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Mexique - Histoire - 1540-1810 (Colonie espagnole)
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Veracruz (Mexique : État) - Relations raciales - Histoire - 17e siècle
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Mexico
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Mexico - Veracruz-Llave (State)
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Staat Veracruz
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Schwarze Frau
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Weibliche Freigelassene
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Sozialer Aufstieg
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Reichtum
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Geschichte 1600-1700
Abstract:
Introduction -- A Nexus of Worlds -- Defending Family -- Owning Slaves -- One Generation -- Capitalizing Status -- Preserving Legacies -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
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.0 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
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