{"id":59664,"date":"2020-04-17T01:40:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T01:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59664"},"modified":"2020-04-17T01:41:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T01:41:54","slug":"asian-slaves-in-colonial-mexico-from-chinos-to-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59664","title":{"rendered":"Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Cambridge University Press<\/a>
\nJune 2014
\n300 pages
\n9 b\/w illus. 3 maps
\nHardback ISBN: 9781107063129
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781107635777
\nDOI: 10.1017\/CBO9781107477841<\/a><\/p>\n

Tatiana Seijas<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of History
\nRutgers, The State University of New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Winner of the 2014 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians’ Book Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent<\/a> and Southeast Asia<\/a> journeyed to Mexico<\/a> on the ships of the Manila Galleon<\/a>. Upon arrival in Mexico, they were grouped together and categorized as chinos. Their experience illustrates the interconnectedness of Spain’s<\/a> colonies and the reach of the crown, which brought people together from Africa<\/a>, the Americas<\/a>, Asia<\/a> and Europe<\/a> in a historically unprecedented way. In time, chinos in Mexico came to be treated under the law as Indians, becoming indigenous vassals of the Spanish crown<\/a> after 1672. The implications of this legal change were enormous: as Indians, rather than chinos, they could no longer be held as slaves. Tatiana Seijas tracks chinos’ complex journey from the slave market in Manila<\/a> to the streets of Mexico City<\/a>, and from bondage to liberty. In doing so, she challenges commonly held assumptions about the uniformity of the slave experience in the Americas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tatiana Seijas tracks chinos’ complex journey from the slave market in Manila to the streets of Mexico City, and from bondage to liberty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,21,459,8,103,17,6940],"tags":[1956,28720],"class_list":["post-59664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-monographs","category-slavery","tag-cambridge-university-press","tag-tatiana-seijas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59664","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=59664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59666,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59664\/revisions\/59666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}