The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan /]cmatthew Restall

by Matthew Restall

Book Overview

Winner of the Conference on Latin American History's 2010 Mexican History Book Prize.

The Black Middle is the first full-length study of black African slaves and other people of African descent in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan. Matthew Restall makes expert use of Spanish and Maya language documents from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, found in a dozen different archives. His goal is to discover what life...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804749833
• ISBN13: 9780804749831
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"