{"id":43176,"date":"2015-10-11T18:18:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T18:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43176"},"modified":"2015-10-11T18:18:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T18:18:04","slug":"mapping-amerindian-captivity-in-colonial-mosquitia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43176","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Amerindian Captivity in Colonial Mosquitia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mapping Amerindian Captivity in Colonial Mosquitia<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Journal of Latin American Geography<\/a>
\nVolume 14, Number 3, October 2015<\/a>
\npages 35-65<\/p>\n

Karl Offen<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
\nOberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1764, Spanish colonel Luis Diez Navarro<\/a> mapped the racially diverse British settlement at Black River<\/a> on what is today the coast of northeastern Honduras<\/a>. I use the map as a point of departure to ponder the origins of Amerindian and mestizo<\/a> residents of Black River and other British settlements across the Mosquito Shore<\/a> in the eighteenth century. I suggest that Diez Navarro\u2019s map can be read to discuss a regional history of violence, the lengthy importance of northern European (and especially British) influence in the region, the significant presence of free people of color, and the social and economic importance of female captivity in general and the Amerindian slave trade in particular. The paper shows how the Afro-Amerindian and Amerindian Mosquito people<\/a> became deeply entangled with the trade-driven supply of Amerindian captives during times of Anglo-Spanish peace, but also the capture of Amerindians, Africans, mestizos, and mulattos<\/a> during times of Anglo-Spanish warfare. The paper argues that Amerindian, mestizo, and mulatto captivity made the Mosquito Shore one of the more racially mixed societies anywhere in the British Atlantic and deserves much more attention than it currently receives.<\/p>\n

En 1764 el coronel espa\u00f1ol Luis Diez Navarro<\/a> mape\u00f3 el diverso y mezclado asentamiento brit\u00e1nico de Black River, en el lugar que hoy es la costa noreste de Honduras. Utilizo este mapa como punto de partida para examinar el origen de los residentes ind\u00edgenas y mestizos de Black River y de los demas asentimientos a lo largo de la costa de los Mosquitos en el siglo dieciocho. Sugiero que el mapa de Diez Navarro se puede leer como una pista para entender la historia regional de violencia, la importancia y larga influencia de los nor-europeos y especialmente los brit\u00e1nicos, la presencia significativa de gente libre de color y la importancia econ\u00f3mica y social de la cautividad femenina en general y el tr\u00e1fico en esclavos ind\u00edgenas en particular. El art\u00edculo demuestra c\u00f3mo los Mosquito, tanto los Afro-ind\u00edgenas como los ind\u00edgenas, se involucraron con el comercio de las ind\u00edgenas cautivas durante tiempos de paz entre los Espa\u00f1oles y los Brit\u00e1nicos, as\u00ed como tambi\u00e9n participaron en la captura de ind\u00edgenas, afrodescendientes y mulatos durante el tiempo del conflicto Anglo-Hispano. El art\u00edculo sostiene que la cautividad ind\u00edgena, mestiza y mulata convierte a la costa de los Mosquitos en una de las sociedades m\u00e1s diversas de la Atl\u00e1ntica brit\u00e1nica y merece un sitio mucho m\u00e1s central que el que tiene actualmente en la academia.<\/p>\n

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Mapping Amerindian Captivity in Colonial Mosquitia Journal of Latin American Geography Volume 14, Number 3, October 2015 pages 35-65 Karl Offen, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio In 1764, Spanish colonel Luis Diez Navarro mapped the racially diverse British settlement at Black River on what is today the coast of northeastern Honduras. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,8],"tags":[1034,16033,21376,21375,21377],"class_list":["post-43176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-honduras","tag-journal-of-latin-american-geography","tag-karl-offen","tag-luis-diez-navarro","tag-mosquito-shore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43177,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43176\/revisions\/43177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}