LEADER 03745nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910780261303321 005 20230207223130.0 010 $a9786612072116 010 $a1-282-07211-0 010 $a0-253-10037-2 010 $a0-253-10985-X 035 $a(CKB)111087026942662 035 $a(EBL)153385 035 $a(OCoLC)53012151 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000345018 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12083201 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000345018 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10315454 035 $a(PQKB)10255485 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000099930 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11127575 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099930 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10017602 035 $a(PQKB)11051437 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC153385 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16615 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL153385 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10032161 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL207211 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087026942662 100 $a20021023d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfricans in colonial Mexico$b[electronic resource] $eabsolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640 /$fHerman L. Bennett 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 225 1 $aBlacks in the diaspora 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-21775-X 311 $a0-253-34236-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Africans, Absolutism, and Archives; 1 Soiled Gods and the Formation of a Slave Society; 2 The Grand RemedyZ?: Africans and Christian Conjugality; 3 Policing Christians: Persons of African Descent before the Inquisition and Ecclesiastical Courts; 4 Christian Matrimony and the Boundaries of African Self-Fashioning; 5 Between Property and Person: Jurisdictional Conflicts over Marriage; 6 Creoles and Christian Narrat\ives; Postscript; Glossary; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author 330 $a""This book charts new directions in thinking about the construction of new world identities.... The way in which [Bennett] integrates race, gender, and the tension between canon and secular law into his analysis will inspire re-examination of earlier studies of marriage in Latin America and the Caribbean."" -- Judith A. Byfield Colonial Mexico was home to the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New World. Africans in Colonial Mexico explores how they learned to make their way i 410 0$aBlacks in the diaspora. 606 $aBlack people$zMexico$zMexico City$xSocial conditions 606 $aBlack people$xMarriage customs and rites$zMexico$zMexico City 606 $aAcculturation$zMexico$xHistory 606 $aChurch and state$zMexico$xHistory 606 $aSlavery and the church$zMexico$xHistory 606 $aEcclesiastical law$zMexico$xHistory 607 $aMexico$xHistory$ySpanish colony, 1540-1810 615 0$aBlack people$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aBlack people$xMarriage customs and rites 615 0$aAcculturation$xHistory. 615 0$aChurch and state$xHistory. 615 0$aSlavery and the church$xHistory. 615 0$aEcclesiastical law$xHistory. 676 $a972/.00496 700 $aBennett$b Herman L$g(Herman Lee),$f1964-$01467210 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780261303321 996 $aAfricans in colonial Mexico$93677791 997 $aUNINA