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