Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640

Released on by David Wheat
preview-18

  • Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 Book Detail

  • Author : David Wheat
  • Release Date : 2016-03-09
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 353
  • ISBN 13 : 1469623803
  • File Size : 55,55 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 by David Wheat PDF Summary

Book Description: This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade. After the catastrophic decline of Amerindian populations on the islands, two major African provenance zones, first Upper Guinea and then Angola, contributed forced migrant populations with distinct experiences to the Caribbean. They played a dynamic role in the social formation of early Spanish colonial society in the fortified port cities of Cartagena de Indias, Havana, Santo Domingo, and Panama City and their semirural hinterlands. David Wheat is the first scholar to establish this early phase of the "Africanization" of the Spanish Caribbean two centuries before the rise of large-scale sugar plantations. With African migrants and their descendants comprising demographic majorities in core areas of Spanish settlement, Luso-Africans, Afro-Iberians, Latinized Africans, and free people of color acted more as colonists or settlers than as plantation slaves. These ethnically mixed and economically diversified societies constituted a region of overlapping Iberian and African worlds, while they made possible Spain's colonization of the Caribbean.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Atlantic and Africa

The Atlantic and Africa

File Size : 9,9 MB
Total View : 339 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Atlantic and Africa breaks new ground by exploring the connections between two bodies of scholarship that have developed separately from one another. On the

The Atlantic Slave Trade

The Atlantic Slave Trade

File Size : 32,32 MB
Total View : 7082 Views
DOWNLOAD

Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brin

African Women in the Atlantic World

African Women in the Atlantic World

File Size : 84,84 MB
Total View : 7633 Views
DOWNLOAD

FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Afri