Scholars, apart from Central Americans, have largely ignored the history of Africans in Central America; this collection recuperates the ignored and forgotten history of blacks in the region.
Scholars, apart from Central Americans, have largely ignored the history of Africans in Central America; this collection recuperates the ignored and forgotten history of blacks in the region.
Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe 1 Part I. Colonial Worlds of Slavery and Freedom Angolans in Amatitlán: Sugar, African Immigrants, and Gente Ladina in Colonial Guatemala / Paul Lokken 27 Cacao and Slavery in Matina, Costa Rica, 1650-1750 / Russell Lohse 57 Race and Place in Colonial Mosquitia, 1600-1787 / Karl H. Offen 92 Slavery and Social Differentiation: Slave Wages in Omoa / Rina Cáceres Gómez 130 Becoming Free, Becoming Ladino: Slave Emancipation and Mestizaje in Colonial Guatemala / Catherine Komisaruk 150 Part II. Nation Building and Reinscribing Race "The Cruel Whip": Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua / Justin Wolfe 177 What Difference did Color Make? Blacks in the "White Towns" of Western Nicaragua in the 1880s / Lowell Gudmundson 209 Race and the Space of Citizenship: The Mosquito Coast and the Place of Blackness and Indigeneity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker 246 Eventually Alien: The Multigenerational Saga of British Western Indians in Central America, 1870-1940 / Lara Putnam 278 White Zones: American Enclave Communities of Central America / Ronald Harpelle 307 The Slow Ascent of the Marginalized: Afro-Descendents in Costa Rica and Nicaragua / Mauricio Meléndez Obando 334 Bibliography 353 Contributors 385 Index 389
Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe 1 Part I. Colonial Worlds of Slavery and Freedom Angolans in Amatitlán: Sugar, African Immigrants, and Gente Ladina in Colonial Guatemala / Paul Lokken 27 Cacao and Slavery in Matina, Costa Rica, 1650-1750 / Russell Lohse 57 Race and Place in Colonial Mosquitia, 1600-1787 / Karl H. Offen 92 Slavery and Social Differentiation: Slave Wages in Omoa / Rina Cáceres Gómez 130 Becoming Free, Becoming Ladino: Slave Emancipation and Mestizaje in Colonial Guatemala / Catherine Komisaruk 150 Part II. Nation Building and Reinscribing Race "The Cruel Whip": Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua / Justin Wolfe 177 What Difference did Color Make? Blacks in the "White Towns" of Western Nicaragua in the 1880s / Lowell Gudmundson 209 Race and the Space of Citizenship: The Mosquito Coast and the Place of Blackness and Indigeneity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker 246 Eventually Alien: The Multigenerational Saga of British Western Indians in Central America, 1870-1940 / Lara Putnam 278 White Zones: American Enclave Communities of Central America / Ronald Harpelle 307 The Slow Ascent of the Marginalized: Afro-Descendents in Costa Rica and Nicaragua / Mauricio Meléndez Obando 334 Bibliography 353 Contributors 385 Index 389
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