Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
Biographic Data
| ID | 685908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pablo Miguel Sierra |
| FAMILY NAME | Silva |
| SIGNATURE | SILVA P M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0459-3435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
De Veracruz (1683) a Cartagena (1697) con escala en Saint-Domingue: Una reinterpretación de la piratería a través de dos episodios afrocoloniales
Este artículo enlaza la historia de Nueva España (México), Nueva Granada (Colombia) y Saint-Domingue (Haití) al enfocar a la persona afrodescendiente en el saqueo de Veracruz en 1683 y la expedición contra Cartagena de Indias en 1697. Basándose en fuentes parroquiales, reportes militares y crónicas bucaneras en inglés, francés y español, se demuestra cómo un proceso historiográfico fue borrando el protagonismo de los milicianos afrodescendientes,…
Manuel Jala: Un afrocampechano ataca la esclavitud en la Boston colonial
The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico
This monograph is a welcome addition to the growing historiography of the African diaspora in Mexico, especially for its focus on free African-descended women in midcolonial central Veracruz, roughly from 1580 to 1730. The chronology invites readers to understand Black women's regional history in the Viceroyalty of New Spain through larger global and Atlantic events. The author demonstrates how free women and their families devised legal, financi…
Erin Woodruff Stone. Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean
Journal Article Erin Woodruff Stone. Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean. Get access Erin Woodruff Stone. Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. 288. Cloth $49.95. Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva University of Rochester Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Afro-Mexican Women in Saint-Domingue: Piracy, Captivity, and Community in the 1680s and 1690s
This article focuses on the experiences of women of African descent who were made captives (and, in some cases, recaptives) after the 1683 buccaneer raid on Veracruz, the most important port in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial Mexico). Although the raid is well known to historians of piracy, its implications for women's history and African diaspora studies have not been properly contextualized in a period of expanding Atlantic slavery. This…
Portugal, Spain, and the transatlantic slave trade
The place of Portugal and Spain in the slave trade was in many ways shaped by the two Iberian powers’ colonisation projects in the Americas and Africa. The early phase of the Iberian slave trade was deeply intertwined with Portugal’s first encounter with African societies in the fifteenth century. Portugal had relied on African enslaved labour from Senegambia to develop sugar production on the Atlantic islands and continental Portugal. The prohib…
Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico
Before Mestizaje is an ambitious attempt to redefine the workings of the caste system (sistema de castas) of colonial Mexico (Viceroyalty of New Spain) by examining individuals on its fringes. Organized into nine short chapters, a coda, and four appendixes, the book is the much-awaited culmination of Vinson's 2005 essay “Estudiando las razas desde la periferia: Las castas olvidadas del sistema colonial mexicano (lobos, moriscos, coyotes, moros y …
Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Ángeles, 1531–1706
Using the city of Puebla de los Ángeles, the second-largest urban center in colonial Mexico (viceroyalty of New Spain), Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva investigates Spaniards' imposition of slavery on Africans, Asians, and their families. He analyzes the experiences of these slaves in four distinct urban settings: the marketplace, the convent, the textile mill, and the elite residence. In so doing, Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico advances a new unders…
Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Angeles, 1531-1706
Using the city of Puebla de los Angeles, the second-largest urban center in colonial Mexico (viceroyalty of New Spain), Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva investigates Spaniards' imposition of slavery on Africans, Asians, and their families. He analyzes the experiences of these slaves in four distinct urban settings: the marketplace, the convent, the textile mill, and the elite residence. In so doing, Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico advances a new unders…
Portuguese Encomenderos de Negros and the Slave Trade within Mexico, 1600–1675
This article focuses on local slaving agents, encomenderos de negros , during the first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on notarial documents, Inquisition cases and investigations on contraband and tax evasion, the study explains how Portuguese intermediaries sold and distributed African captives in colonial Mexico between 1616 and 1639. The ability to extend credit was key to the success of these agents-on-commission. The article also e…
The Persistence of the slave market in seventeenth-century Central Mexico
This study, based on an extensive notarial database, demonstrates the significance of slavery in Central Mexico during the seventeenth century. Thousands of bills of sale from Mexico City and Puebla – the largest and most lucrative slave markets in the region – show that the slave trade did not collapse with the end of the Portuguese asiento in 1640. A growing population of American-born creoles sustained the market during the subsequent decades,…
From Chains to Chiles: An Elite Afro-Indigenous Couple in Colonial Mexico, 1641-1688
This article explores the life of an elite Afro-indigenous couple in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles during the seventeenth century. Through the study of a freedman, Felipe Monsón y Mojica, and his indigenous wife, Juana María de la Cruz, I propose a new approach to the study of the African diaspora in the urban centers of New Spain (colonial Mexico). By combining an extensive corpus of notarial, judicial, and parochial records with isolated re…
The Persistence of the slave market in seventeenth-century Central Mexico
This study, based on an extensive notarial database, demonstrates the significance of slavery in Central Mexico during the seventeenth century. Thousands of bills of sale from Mexico City and Puebla – the largest and most lucrative slave markets in the region – show that the slave trade did not collapse with the end of the Portuguese asiento in 1640. A growing population of American-born creoles sustained the market during the subsequent decades,…
Afro-Mexican Women in Saint-Domingue: Piracy, Captivity, and Community in the 1680s and 1690s
This article focuses on the experiences of women of African descent who were made captives (and, in some cases, recaptives) after the 1683 buccaneer raid on Veracruz, the most important port in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial Mexico). Although the raid is well known to historians of piracy, its implications for women's history and African diaspora studies have not been properly contextualized in a period of expanding Atlantic slavery. This…
From Chains to Chiles: An Elite Afro-Indigenous Couple in Colonial Mexico, 1641-1688
This article explores the life of an elite Afro-indigenous couple in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles during the seventeenth century. Through the study of a freedman, Felipe Monsón y Mojica, and his indigenous wife, Juana María de la Cruz, I propose a new approach to the study of the African diaspora in the urban centers of New Spain (colonial Mexico). By combining an extensive corpus of notarial, judicial, and parochial records with isolated re…
Portuguese Encomenderos de Negros and the Slave Trade within Mexico, 1600–1675
This article focuses on local slaving agents, encomenderos de negros , during the first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on notarial documents, Inquisition cases and investigations on contraband and tax evasion, the study explains how Portuguese intermediaries sold and distributed African captives in colonial Mexico between 1616 and 1639. The ability to extend credit was key to the success of these agents-on-commission. The article also e…
From Chains to Chiles: An Elite Afro-Indigenous Couple in Colonial Mexico, 1641-1688
This article explores the life of an elite Afro-indigenous couple in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles during the seventeenth century. Through the study of a freedman, Felipe Monsón y Mojica, and his indigenous wife, Juana María de la Cruz, I propose a new approach to the study of the African diaspora in the urban centers of New Spain (colonial Mexico). By combining an extensive corpus of notarial, judicial, and parochial records with isolated re…
The Persistence of the slave market in seventeenth-century Central Mexico
This study, based on an extensive notarial database, demonstrates the significance of slavery in Central Mexico during the seventeenth century. Thousands of bills of sale from Mexico City and Puebla – the largest and most lucrative slave markets in the region – show that the slave trade did not collapse with the end of the Portuguese asiento in 1640. A growing population of American-born creoles sustained the market during the subsequent decades,…
Portuguese Encomenderos de Negros and the Slave Trade within Mexico, 1600–1675
This article focuses on local slaving agents, encomenderos de negros , during the first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on notarial documents, Inquisition cases and investigations on contraband and tax evasion, the study explains how Portuguese intermediaries sold and distributed African captives in colonial Mexico between 1616 and 1639. The ability to extend credit was key to the success of these agents-on-commission. The article also e…
Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Ángeles, 1531–1706
Using the city of Puebla de los Ángeles, the second-largest urban center in colonial Mexico (viceroyalty of New Spain), Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva investigates Spaniards' imposition of slavery on Africans, Asians, and their families. He analyzes the experiences of these slaves in four distinct urban settings: the marketplace, the convent, the textile mill, and the elite residence. In so doing, Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico advances a new unders…
Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Angeles, 1531-1706
Using the city of Puebla de los Angeles, the second-largest urban center in colonial Mexico (viceroyalty of New Spain), Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva investigates Spaniards' imposition of slavery on Africans, Asians, and their families. He analyzes the experiences of these slaves in four distinct urban settings: the marketplace, the convent, the textile mill, and the elite residence. In so doing, Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico advances a new unders…
Portugal, Spain, and the transatlantic slave trade
The place of Portugal and Spain in the slave trade was in many ways shaped by the two Iberian powers’ colonisation projects in the Americas and Africa. The early phase of the Iberian slave trade was deeply intertwined with Portugal’s first encounter with African societies in the fifteenth century. Portugal had relied on African enslaved labour from Senegambia to develop sugar production on the Atlantic islands and continental Portugal. The prohib…
Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico
Before Mestizaje is an ambitious attempt to redefine the workings of the caste system (sistema de castas) of colonial Mexico (Viceroyalty of New Spain) by examining individuals on its fringes. Organized into nine short chapters, a coda, and four appendixes, the book is the much-awaited culmination of Vinson's 2005 essay “Estudiando las razas desde la periferia: Las castas olvidadas del sistema colonial mexicano (lobos, moriscos, coyotes, moros y …
Afro-Mexican Women in Saint-Domingue: Piracy, Captivity, and Community in the 1680s and 1690s
This article focuses on the experiences of women of African descent who were made captives (and, in some cases, recaptives) after the 1683 buccaneer raid on Veracruz, the most important port in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial Mexico). Although the raid is well known to historians of piracy, its implications for women's history and African diaspora studies have not been properly contextualized in a period of expanding Atlantic slavery. This…
Erin Woodruff Stone. Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean
Journal Article Erin Woodruff Stone. Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean. Get access Erin Woodruff Stone. Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. 288. Cloth $49.95. Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva University of Rochester Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico
This monograph is a welcome addition to the growing historiography of the African diaspora in Mexico, especially for its focus on free African-descended women in midcolonial central Veracruz, roughly from 1580 to 1730. The chronology invites readers to understand Black women's regional history in the Viceroyalty of New Spain through larger global and Atlantic events. The author demonstrates how free women and their families devised legal, financi…
De Veracruz (1683) a Cartagena (1697) con escala en Saint-Domingue: Una reinterpretación de la piratería a través de dos episodios afrocoloniales
Este artículo enlaza la historia de Nueva España (México), Nueva Granada (Colombia) y Saint-Domingue (Haití) al enfocar a la persona afrodescendiente en el saqueo de Veracruz en 1683 y la expedición contra Cartagena de Indias en 1697. Basándose en fuentes parroquiales, reportes militares y crónicas bucaneras en inglés, francés y español, se demuestra cómo un proceso historiográfico fue borrando el protagonismo de los milicianos afrodescendientes,…
Manuel Jala: Un afrocampechano ataca la esclavitud en la Boston colonial
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