{"id":41636,"date":"2016-05-09T01:04:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T01:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41636"},"modified":"2017-03-26T02:10:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T02:10:25","slug":"atlantic-africa-and-the-spanish-caribbean-1570-1640","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41636","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

University of North Carolina Press<\/a>
\nMay 2016
\n352 pages
\n6.125 x 9.25, 15 halftones
\nCloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-2341-2<\/p>\n

David Wheat<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of History
\nMichigan State University<\/em><\/p>\n

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This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean<\/a> as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade.<\/strong> After the catastrophic decline of Amerindian populations on the islands, two major African provenance zones, first Upper Guinea<\/a> and then Angola<\/a>, contributed forced migrant populations with distinct experiences to the Caribbean. They played a dynamic role in the social formation of early Spanish colonial society in the fortified port cities of Cartagena de Indias<\/a>, Havana<\/a>, Santo Domingo<\/a>, and Panama City<\/a> and their semirural hinterlands.<\/p>\n

David Wheat is the first scholar to establish this early phase of the “Africanization” of the Spanish Caribbean two centuries before the rise of large-scale sugar plantations. With African migrants and their descendants comprising demographic majorities in core areas of Spanish settlement, Luso-Africans, Afro-Iberians, Latinized Africans, and free people of color acted more as colonists or settlers than as plantation slaves. These ethnically mixed and economically diversified societies constituted a region of overlapping Iberian and African worlds, while they made possible Spain’s colonization of the Caribbean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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