Africans in colonial Mexico: absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640

Abstract

Creating Subjects and Forging Community: Afro-Mexicans and Colonial Institutional PowerScholarship on Mexico's place within the African Diaspora has experienced a veritable renaissance of late.Herman Bennett's book, Africans in Colonial Mexico, contributes to this effort by examining sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Mexico City, the capital of a colony that for much of this period held the second largest African slave population and the largest free black population in the Americas.

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