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Title:

THE BLACK MIDDLE
AFRICANS, MAYAS, AND SPANIARDS IN COLONIAL YUCATAN

By:

Matthew Restall

Format:

Hardback

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£124.00

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ISBN 10:

0804749833

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9780804749831

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Publisher:

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

2 June, 2009

Pages:

456

Description:

The Black Middle is the first book-length study of the interaction of black slaves and other people of African descent with Mayas and Spaniards in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan (southern Mexico).

Synopsis:

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.

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