From South Asia to Mexico, from slave to spiritual icon, this woman’s life is a snapshot of Spain’s colonization – and the Pacific slave trade history that books ofte…
Catarina de San Juan’s life reads like an epic – and her extraordinary story is little known. Born in South Asia during the ...
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The Stono Rebellion
A fall epidemic had disrupted the colonial government ... raising hopes that the Spanish in St. Augustine would give a positive reception to slaves escaping from Carolina plantations.
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new world orders: casta painting and colonial latin america at the americas society by Yasmin Ramirez
Walter Benjamin's dictum that every work of art is also a work of barbarism comes to mind with "New World Orders," an exhibition of Spanish colonial casta paintings ... and Black blood associated with ...
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Roads To Freedom
Opening a symposium on Robin Blackburn’s The Reckoning, a probing examination of political agents and structuring conditions behind the late overthrow of slavery in the American South, Cuba and Brazil ...