Table of Contents

Figures, tables, maps and documents; Archival references; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Early Puebla and the question of labor; 2. Ambition, agency and abuse: the textile mills of Puebla; 3. Captive souls: nuns and slaves in the convents of Puebla; 4. The Puebla slave market, 1600–1700; 5. Life in the big city: mobility, social networks, and family; 6. The other market: commerce and opportunity; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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Focuses on enslaved families and their social networks in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles in seventeenth-century colonial Mexico.

About the Author

Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Rochester, New York.