{"id":59755,"date":"2020-06-22T00:32:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T00:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59755"},"modified":"2020-06-22T00:32:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T00:32:56","slug":"afro-mexican-women-in-saint-domingue-piracy-captivity-and-community-in-the-1680s-and-1690s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59755","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Mexican Women in Saint-Domingue: Piracy, Captivity, and Community in the 1680s and 1690s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1215\/00182168-7993067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Afro-Mexican Women in Saint-Domingue: Piracy, Captivity, and Community in the 1680s and 1690s<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/hahr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hispanic American Historical Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/hahr\/issue\/100\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Volume 100, Issue 1 (2020-02-01)<\/a><br \/>\npages 3-34<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1215\/00182168-7993067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10.1215\/00182168-7993067<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/his\/people\/faculty\/sierra_pablo\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of Rochester, Rochester, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1215\/00182168-7993067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dup.silverchair-cdn.com\/dup\/Content_public\/Journal\/hahr\/Issue\/100\/1\/2\/m_coverimage.png?Expires=1592878674&amp;Signature=bAvjQBKuYMw7219UTjRVhG3rkFzHTuwXyi~RVt1DH~D0jiD44P5e4IeUpVDbHC~Twry10n64m9s0LRzMpjasLACt9loNy6i8efjoG1h-YK97aKDK3xXMBDDsqEI49iQb1wFTcicwUm8iTCMLeHyb6UJaCgXiP-I3JPcm1WtVkHqe-FG6SEWbUMENRu~MggL9LfCjH8ynplvudoi32akotdizhDgVM-kpSeDtB5z6gDKQNu4yoK8sczeQEGTKysTfKe7a0fQ4Z324c0VVtgSmpD7FvzltPpSxg9-PgQFrfWgDECHbcKstQAuXb9fiCN9Gw8ujgDOy5x8l2LAoxKPjgQ__&amp;Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article focuses on the experiences of women of African descent who were made captives (and, in some cases, recaptives) after the 1683 buccaneer raid on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veracruz_(city)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Veracruz<\/a>, the most important port in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Viceroyalty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Viceroyalty<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Spain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Spain<\/a> (colonial Mexico). Although the raid is well known to historians of piracy, its implications for women&#8217;s history and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_diaspora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">African diaspora<\/a> studies have not been properly contextualized in a period of expanding Atlantic slavery. This article proposes a close reading of contraband cases, parochial registers, slave codes, and eyewitness accounts centered on Afro-Mexican women who were kidnapped to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint-Domingue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saint-Domingue<\/a> (modern-day Haiti). A focus on displacement and resilience opens new narratives through which to understand women who transcended their captivity by becoming spouses to French colonists and free mothers to Saint-Domingue&#8217;s <em>gens de couleur<\/em> (people of mixed race).<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1215\/00182168-7993067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article focuses on the experiences of women of African descent who were made captives (and, in some cases, recaptives) after the 1683 buccaneer raid on Veracruz,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,8,103,25],"tags":[3025,30902,20013,1731,7064],"class_list":["post-59755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-women","tag-hispanic-american-historical-review","tag-pablo-m-sierra-silva","tag-pablo-miguel-sierra-silva","tag-saint-domingue","tag-veracruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59755","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=59755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59757,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59755\/revisions\/59757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}