Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Black MiddleCondition: NewSubtitle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial YucatanAuthor: Matthew RestallFormat: HardbackISBN-10: 0804749833EAN: 9780804749831ISBN: 9780804749831Publisher: Stanford University PressGenre: HistoryRelease Date: 06/02/2009Description: Winner of the Conference on Latin American History's 2010 Mexican History Book Prize. The Black Middle is the first full-length study of black African slaves and other people of African descent in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan. Matthew Restall makes expert use of Spanish and Maya language documents from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, found in a dozen different archives. His goal is to discover what life was like for a people hitherto ignored by historians. He explores such topics as slavery and freedom, militia service and family life, bigamy and witchcraft, and the ways in which Afro-Yucatecans (as he dubs them) interacted with Mayas and Spaniards. Restall concludes that, in numerous ways, Afro-Yucatecans lived and worked in a middle space between—but closely connected to—Mayas and Spaniards. The book's "black middle" thesis has profound implications for the study of Africans throughout the Americas.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 155mmItem Weight: 771gRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Black Middle
Title: The Black Middle
Subtitle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan
ISBN-10: 0804749833
EAN: 9780804749831
ISBN: 9780804749831
Genre: History
Release Date: 06/02/2009
Release Year: 2009
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Number of Pages: 456 Pages
Publication Name: Black Middle : Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 1.5 in
Subject: Latin America / Mexico, Black Studies (Global)
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 27.3 Oz
Author: Matthew Restall
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Hardcover
