Afro-Latino Voices: Shorter Edition: Translations of Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic Narratives

Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Titles of Related Interest Available from Hackett Publishing
Dedication
Contents
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Maps
Part I: Politics and Wars
	Chapter 1: The Treason of Dom Pedro Nkanga a Mvemba against Dom Diogo, King of Kongo, 1550
	Chapter 2: Maroon Chief Alonso de Illescas\' Letter to the Crown, 1586
	Chapter 3: Queen Njinga Mbandi Ana de Sousa of Ndongo/Matamba: African Leadership, Diplomacy, and Ideology, 1620s—1650s
	Chapter 4: Afro-Iberian Subjects: Petitioning the Crown at Home, Serving the Crown Abroad, 1590s—1630s
	Chapter 5: Soldier, Slave, and Elder: Maroon Voices from the Palenque del Limón, 1634
Part II: Families and Communities
	Chapter 6: Juan Roque\'s Donation of a House to the Zape Confraternity, Mexico City, 1623
	Chapter 7: Death, Gender, and Writing: Testaments of Women of African Origin in Seventeenth-Century Lima, 1651—1666
	Chapter 8: To Live as a Pueblo: A Contentious Endeavor, El Cobre, Cuba, 1670s—1790s
	Chapter 9: The Making of a Free Lucumí Household: Ana de la Calle\'s Will and Goods, Northern Peruvian Coast, 1719
	Chapter 10: “El rey de los congos”: The Clandestine Coronation of Pedro Duarte in Buenos Aires, 1787
Part III: Religious Beliefs and Practices
	Chapter 11: The Witchcraft Trials of Paula de Eguiluz, a Black Woman, in Cartagena de Indias, 1620—1636
	Chapter 12: A Spanish Caribbean Captivity Narrative: African Sailors and Puritan Slavers, 1635
	Chapter 13: The Saint\'s Life of Sister Chicaba, c. 1676–1748: An As-Told-To Slave Narrative
	Chapter 14: The Regent, the Secretary, and the Widow: Power, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Confraternity of Saints Elesbão and Iphigenia, Rio de Janeiro, 1784–1786
Part IV: Claiming and Defending Rights
	Chapter 15: Confessing Sodomy, Accusing a Master: The Lisbon Trial of Pernambuco\'s Luiz da Costa, 1743
	Chapter 16: Slavery, Writing, and Female Resistance: Black Women Litigants in Lima\'s Tribunals of the 1780s
	Chapter 17: The Case of Javier, Esclavo, against His Master for Cruel Punishment, San Juan, Argentina, 1795
	Chapter 18: In the Royal Service of Spain: The Milicianos Morenos Manuel and Antonio Pérez during the Napoleonic Invasion, 1808–1812
Glossary
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
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