Salvation Through Slavery: Chiricahua Apaches and Priests on the Spanish Colonial Frontier

by H. Henrietta Stockel

Book Overview

In her latest work, H. Henrietta Stockel examines the collision of the ethnocentric Spanish missionaries and the Chiricahua Apaches, including the resulting identity theft through Christian baptism, and the even more destructive creation of a local slave trade. The new information provided in this study offers a sample of the total unknown number of baptized Chiricahua men, women, and children who were sold into slavery by Jesuits and Franciscans...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826343252
• ISBN13: 9780826343253
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"