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The Foundation of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de los Morenos de Amapa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

William B. Taylor
William B. Taylor*
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University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
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The relatively small degree of racial discrimination against the Negro in Latin America generally has been traced by North American historians to Spanish acceptance of the African Negro as a human being, not perpetually destined for slavery nor inferior to other races. In contrast to the status of the Negro slave in colonial North America, Spanish laws and attitudes are thought to have provided in colonial Spanish America a climate of opinion which promoted miscegenation and afforded the slave a variety of legal avenues to freedom. In support of this explanation of reduced racial discimination, notarial records of manumission from the colonial period and the thirteenth-century legal code, Las siete partidas , are prominently displayed as evidence of the Spaniards' belief in “equality among men” and the transformation of the principle of equality into practice.

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The Americas , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , April 1970 , pp. 439 - 446
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1970

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References

1 See Tannenbaum, Frank, Slave and Citizen, the Negro in the Americas (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947)Google Scholar; Elkins, Stanley M., Slavery. A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959)Google Scholar; and Klein, Herbert S., Slavery in the Americas, A Comparative Study of Virginia and Cuba (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967).Google Scholar

2 Tannenbaum, 47.

3 For a description of a number of slave revolts in Mexico see Davidson, David M., “Negro Slave Control and Resistance in Colonial Mexico, 1519–1650,” Hispanic American Historical Review, 46, No. 3 (August, 1966), 235–253.Google Scholar

4 Archivo de la Nación, General (Mexico), Ramo de Tributos, Vol. 43,Google Scholar expediente 9, folio 8r. The free Negro and mulatto population was distributed over the following provinces:

5 Davidson, 247–250.

6 The military role of the Negro in the late colonial and Independence periods is discussed in Beltrán, Gonzalo Aguirre, “El factor negro en la Independencia de México,” Futuro, número 91 (México, September, 1943), 13–15.Google Scholar