What is it about?
This article proves that the slave markets of Mexico City and Puebla continued to operate well past 1640. In using previously unacknowledged notarial documents, Seijas and Sierra Silva prove that Central Mexico continued to demand enslaved people throughout the late 17th century. A domestic and transatlantic slave trade continued throughout the entire period as people born in the Americas (criollos) and recently arrived Africans (bozales) were sold throughout the viceroyalty of New Spain.
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Why is it important?
The article is important because previous scholarship on Mexican slavery tends to focus on the 1580-1640 period. Our research demonstrates that local contexts matter immensely and may help explain why slavery persisted for so long in specific areas of Mexico.
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This is the first collaboration between Sierra Silva and Seijas, both of whom are historians of the Mexican colonial period.
Prof. Pablo M Sierra Silva
University of Rochester
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This page is a summary of: The Persistence of the slave market in seventeenth-century Central Mexico, Slavery and Abolition, January 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/0144039x.2015.1121024.
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