Contributor
McKnight, Kathryn Joy, 1961-
Imprint:Indianapolis, IN : Hackett Pub., c2009.
Descriptionxxxvii, 377 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Note:The treason of Dom Pedro Nkanga a Mvenba against Dom Diogo, King of Kongo, 1550 / John K Thornton, Linda Heywood -- Maroon Chief Alonso de Illescas" letter to the Crown, 1586 / Charles Beatty-Medina -- Queen Njinga Mbandi Ana de Sousa of Ndongo/Matamba: African leadership, diplomacy, and idealogy, 1620-1650s/ Linda Heywood; document translation by Luis Madureira -- Afro-Iderian subjects: petitioning the Crown at home, serving the Crown abroad, 1590s-1963s / Leo J. Garofalo -- Elder, slave, and soldier: masroon voices from the Palenque del Limon, 1634 / Kathryn Joy Mc Knight -- Juan Roque's donation of a house to the Zape confraternity, Mexico City, 1623 / Nicole von Germeten -- Death, gender, and writing: testaments of women of African origin in seventeenth-century Lima, 1651-1666 / Jose R Jouve-Martin -- To live as a pueblo: a contentious endeavor, El Cobre, Cuba, 1670-1790s / Maria Elena Diaz -- The making of a free Lucumi household: Ana de la Calle's will and goods, northerm Peruvian coast 1719 / Rachel Sarah O'Toole -- "El rey de los congos": the clandestine coronation of Pedro Duarte in Buenos Aires, 1787 / Patricia Fogelman ... [et al.] -- The witchcraft trials of Paula de Eguiluz, a black woman in Cartagena de Indias, 1620-1636 / Sara Vicuņa Guengerich -- A Spanish Caribbean captivity narrative: African sailors and Puritan slavers, 1635 / David Wheat -- The saints life of Sister Chicaba, c. 1676-1748: an as-told-to slave narative / SueE. Houchins, Baltasar Fra-Molinero -- The regent, the secretary and the widow: power, ethnicity, and gender in confraternity of Saints Elesão and Iphigenia, Rio de Janeiro, 1784-1786 / Elizabeth W. Kiddy -- Confessing sodomy, accuswing a materL the Lisbon trial of Pernambuco's Luiz de Costa, 1743 / Richard A. Gordom -- Slavery, writing and female resistance: Black womenlitigants in Lima's late colonial tribunals of the 1780s / Maribel Arrelucea Barrantes ... [et al.] -- The case of Javier, Esclavo, against his master for cruel punishment, San Juan, Argentina, 1795 / Ana Teresa Fanchin ...[et al.] -- In the Royal service of Spain: the milicianos Merenos Manuel and Antonio Perez during the Napoleonic Invasion, 1808-1812 / Jorge L. Chinea.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
