HIST 583 - Africans in Colonial Latin America

Afro-Latin Americans and their contributions to empire building as slaves, litigants, conquistadors, militia members, Christians, and Spanish and Portuguese imperial subjects. Emphasis on relations between slaves and free people of color, African-indigenous alliances and relationships, maroon communities, emergence of Afro-Creole and Afro-Christian consciousness, and resistance, compliance, and accommodation to the imperial project.

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