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Africans into Creoles : Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonial Costa Rica.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Diálogos SeriesPublisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (367 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826354983
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Africans into CreolesDDC classification:
  • 306.3/62097286
LOC classification:
  • HT1056.C67.L65 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1: A "Guinea Voyage" Gone Wrong: From Africa to Costa Rica, 1708-1710 -- 2: Stolen from Their Countries: The Origins of Africans in Costa Rica -- 3: Middle Passages: The Slave Trade to Costa Rica -- 4: Becoming Slaves in Costa Rica -- 5: Work and the Shaping of Slave Life -- 6: Slave Resistance -- 7: More than Slaves: Family and Freedom -- Conclusions -- Epilogue -- Appendix One: Fugitive Slaves, 1612-1746 -- Appendix Two: Slave Marriages, 1670-1750 -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
Summary: Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World.
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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1: A "Guinea Voyage" Gone Wrong: From Africa to Costa Rica, 1708-1710 -- 2: Stolen from Their Countries: The Origins of Africans in Costa Rica -- 3: Middle Passages: The Slave Trade to Costa Rica -- 4: Becoming Slaves in Costa Rica -- 5: Work and the Shaping of Slave Life -- 6: Slave Resistance -- 7: More than Slaves: Family and Freedom -- Conclusions -- Epilogue -- Appendix One: Fugitive Slaves, 1612-1746 -- Appendix Two: Slave Marriages, 1670-1750 -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World.

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