Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550-1812

At last a book that enlarges what we know about black people in the world of Spanish conquest and Atlantic travel. What is especially notable about this text is how it gives us the story in the voices of the people themselves and the tools to be able to hear them. Too often scholars narrate for the subjects of study or else give us texts which we don't know how to decipher across the barriers of time, dialect, ways of speech. In this volume the focus is always on the voices from the African diaspora. An exciting chance to gain a wider and more nuanced picture of what it meant to be black in Latin America and Spain in the time of 1550-1821. This book is accessible to non-academic readers such as myself.

This text has my highest regard for etching a space from within the darker side of the Renaissance. For people who may ask: did people of African heritage speak back during the period of Transatlantic Captivity -- this text purports a kaleidoscopic Weltanschauung.Warmly,Dr. Murrell (Carlos)

This book was a required read for a class in Colonial Latin America. It provide insites into the day to day lives of of people living during that time. It uses court documents to provide the story.

This book gives a lot of insight on how Afro-LATINOS lived and how they found their space in the colonial world, Another great factor of this book is that it provides the original text

Excellent book. Highly recommended for people who think slavery was the whole story of colonialism. It's a lot more complicated and this book explains why and how.