Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage (eBook)

Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito

Sherwin K. Bryant (Autor)

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2014
264 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-0773-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In this pioneering study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia Spains Kingdom of Quito Sherwin Bryant argues that the most fundamental dimension of slavery was governance and the extension of imperial power. Bryant shows that enslaved black captives were foundational to sixteenth-century royal claims on the Americas and elemental to the process of Spanish colonization. Following enslaved Africans from their arrival at the Caribbean port of Cartagena through their journey to Quito, Bryant explores how they lived during their captivity, formed kinships and communal affinities, and pressed for justice within a slave-based Catholic sovereign community.In Cartagena, officials branded African captives with the royal insignia and gave them a Catholic baptism, marking slaves as projections of royal authority and majesty. By licensing and governing Quitos slave trade, the crown claimed sovereignty over slavery, new territories, natural resources, and markets. By adjudicating slavery, royal authorities claimed to govern not only slaves but other colonial subjects as well. Expanding the diaspora paradigm beyond the Atlantic, Bryants history of the Afro-Andes in the early modern world suggests new answers to the question, what is a slave?

Autor

Sherwin K. Bryant is associate professor of African American studies and history at Northwestern University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.11.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 5 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: African diaspora • Africans in Colombia, Jesuits • Africans in Ecuador, Esmeraldas, Jesuits • Afro-Andes • Afro-Creoles • Barbacoas, Sindaguas • Blacks in New Granada, Colombia, pacific coast • Blacks in the kingdom of Quito, Ecuador 17th-18th century • Cartagena • Chocó • Chocó • coartacion • colonial guayaquil ecuador • colonial quito • contraband slave trading 18th century caribbean and pacific subjects of the Spanish empire • Creole • Cuenca • ecuador in 1500s • ecuador in 1600s • Esmeraldas • governance of colonialism • history of ecuador mining regions • Ibarra • Libertad • Loja • Magdalena • manumission • Mompox • Mompox / • New Granada • Pacific slave trade • rivers of gold lives of bondage • Scarification • sherwin bryant • slave baptism in Colombia • slave baptism in Ecuador • slave branding • slave consciousness • slave culture • Slave life and power in Colombia 17th-18th centuries • Slave life and power in Ecuador 17th-18th centuries • slave marriage in Colombia • slave marriage in Ecuador • slave religion • Slavery and black life in Guayaquil and the Pacific coast • Slavery and encomienda in Popayán • Slavery and encomienda in Popayán • slavery ecuador • slavery in colonial quito • slavery in latin america • Slavery, slave society, power and the law in 17th and 18th century Quito • slave trade Lima • Slave trade Panama • slave women in Colombia • slave women in Ecuador • Slave women in South America • Spanish Empire • the caribbean coast
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-0773-5 / 1469607735
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-0773-3 / 9781469607733