Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage: Governing Through Slavery in Colonial Quito

by Sherwin K. Bryant

Book Overview

In this pioneering study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia--Spain's Kingdom of Quito--Sherwin Bryant argues that the most fundamental dimension of slavery was governance and the extension of imperial power. Bryant shows that enslaved black captives were foundational to sixteenth-century royal claims on the Americas and elemental to the process of Spanish colonization. Following enslaved Africans from their arrival at the Caribbean...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469645661
• ISBN13: 9781469645667
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"