The African Diaspora in the Eastern Andes

Adaptation, Agency, and Fugitive Action, 1573-1677

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8871862
AutoresLolita Gutiérrez Brockington (North Carolina Central University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen57
Número2
Páginas207-224
Fecha de publicación2000-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-1615 • E-ISSN: 1533-6247
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/tam.2000.0003
OpenAlexW2024418990
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas12

In 1545, miners struck silver in what would become one of the richest veins in the entire New World, the near legendary Cerro Rico of Potosí, in the Andean highlands of Peru. This strike prompted swift action on the part of royal authorities. They sought to rearrange existing land and labor systems and to establish new ones to meet the spiraling economic demands. Simultaneously they had to cope with a dramatic, unprecedented drop in the indigenous population which hitherto had supplied needed labor. The crown turned elsewhere, and authorized the exploitation of another, far more distant group of people. Slaves from Africa became an additional, ongoing source of much needed labor in the Andes

Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Diaspora · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · Population · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Demography · Ecology · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Latin American history and culture · Law