The Black Middle

Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan

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Matthew Restall

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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.

Author Biography:

Matthew Restall is Professor of Latin American History and Director of Latin American Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Since 1995, he has written or edited numerous books, including The Maya World(Stanford, 1997).

Release date Australia

December 10th, 2013

Author

Matthew Restall

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

456

Dimensions

155x231x18

ISBN-13

9780804792080

Product ID

21785131

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