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Author/Creator:Terrazas Williams, Danielle, author.
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Title:The capital of free women : race, legitimacy, and liberty in colonial Mexico / Danielle Terrazas Williams.
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ISBN:9780300265644
0300265646
9780300258066
0300258062
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Publication:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
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Copyright notice date: ©2022
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Links:Online book
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Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
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Notes:Print version record.
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Biographical / Historical note:Danielle Terrazas Williams is Lecturer in the School of History at the University of Leeds. She won the Kimberly S. Hanger Prize from the Southern Historical Association for the research and writing of material included in this book.
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Summary:"A restoration of the agency and influence of free African-descended women in colonial Mexico through their traces in archives. he Capital of Free Women examines how African-descended women strove for dignity in seventeenth-century Mexico. Free women in central Veracruz, sometimes just one generation removed from slavery, purchased land, ran businesses, managed intergenerational wealth, and owned slaves of African descent. Drawing from archives in Mexico, Spain, and Italy, Danielle Terrazas Williams explores the lives of African-descended women across the economic spectrum, evaluates their elite sensibilities, and challenges notions of race and class in the colonial period."--
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Variant and related titles:EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
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Other formats:Print version: Terrazas Williams, Danielle. Capital of free women. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:Introduction -- Nexus of worlds -- Defending family -- Owning slaves -- One generation -- Capitalizing status -- Preserving legacies -- Epilogue.
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Subjects:Women, Black--Mexico--Veracruz-Llave (State)--Economic conditions--17th century.
Freed persons--Mexico--Veracruz-Llave (State)--Economic conditions--17th century.
Women merchants--Mexico--Veracruz-Llave (State)--17th century.
Women, Black--Mexico--Veracruz-Llave (State)--History--17th century.
Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
Veracruz-Llave (Mexico : State)--Race relations--History--17th century.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16293016