At the heart of the borderlands : Africans and Afro-descendants on the edges of colonial Spanish America / edited by Cameron D. Jones and Jay T. Harrison.

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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. "Se Llaman Gente de Razón": Afro-Descendants in Early Spanish California, 1769-1821 by Cameron D. Jones
Chapter 2. Black Fugitive Strategies: Slavery and Self-Emancipation in the Spanish Gulf Coast Borderlands by Christina Marie Villarreal
Chapter 3. The Moving Border: Black Experiences in CaribbeanFrontiers and North American Borderlands in the Late Seventeenth Century by Joseph M. H. Clark

Chapter 4. The Case of María Faustina Trejo: Fluid Racial Categories in Jalisco's Highlands, 1781-1815 by Anne M. Reid
Chapter 5. From Slavery to Citizenship? San Benito, Sanctuary Policy,and the Law on the Ground by Mark W. Lentz
Chapter 6. "Lords of the Land": Maroon challenges to Spanish Sovereignty in Panama and Hispaniola, 1520-1610 by Robert C. Schwaller
Chapter 7. Mine Owners, Moneylenders, Enslavers, and Litigants: Free-Black Miners and Black Mining Dynasties in the Colombian Chocó,1744-1784 by Juliet Wiersema

Chapter 8. African Maroons and Native Peoples on the "Atlantic" Borderlands of Colonial Quito by Charles Beatty-Medina
Chapter 9. Fugitive Time, Space, and Refusal in the Pacific Andes by Rachel Sarah O'Toole
Chapter 10. Aqueous and Dry Borderlands: Africans and Their Descendants in Colonial Rio de la Plata by Alex Borucki
Bibliography
Contributors
Index