Africans into Creoles
Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonial Costa Rica
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 ex…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8263-5498-3
- EAN: 9780826354983
- Produktnummer: 34255809
- Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'030 KB
Über den Autor
Russell Lohse is an assistant professor of history at Pennsylvania State University.
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