Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America

Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin AmericaAlmost eleven of the twelve million Africans who survived the trauma of enslavement in Africa and the horrors of the Middle Passage, remade their lives in territories claimed by Spain or Portugal. Drawing on a wealth of previously unused sources, the authors show that although plantation slavery was a horrible reality for many Africans and their descendants in Latin America, blacks experienced many other realities in Iberian colonies. Paul Lovejoy

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