Africans into Creoles: Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in

Africans into Creoles: Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonial Costa Rica (Diálogos Series)

Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World. Tracing the experiences of Africans on two Danish slave ships that arrived in Costa Rica in 1710, the Christianus Quintus and Fredericus Quartus, the author examines slavery in Costa Rica from 1600 to 1750. Lohse looks at the ethnic origins of the Africans and narrates their capture and transport to the coast, their embarkation and passage, and finally their acculturation to slavery and their lives as slaves in Costa Rica. Following the experiences of girls and boys, women and men, he shows how the conditions of slavery in a unique local setting determined the constraints that slaves faced and how they responded to their condition.
Country USA
Brand University of New Mexico Press
Manufacturer UNM Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2014-09-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780826354976

Country	USA
Brand	University of New Mexico Press
Manufacturer	UNM Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2014-09-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780826354976

Africans into Creoles: Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonial Costa Rica (Diálogos Series)