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Hardcover Taxing Blackness: Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain Book

ISBN: 0817320075

ISBN13: 9780817320072

Taxing Blackness: Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain

(Part of the Atlantic Crossings Series)

A definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexicans

During the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of Africans in Mexico faced a highly specific obligation to the Spanish crown, a tax based on their genealogy and status. This royal tribute symbolized imperial loyalties and social hierarchies. As the number of free people of color soared, this tax became a reliable...

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