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How does society deal with a serial killer in its midst? What if the murderer is a Catholic priest living among native villagers in colonial Peru? In The Chankas and the Priest, Sabine Hyland chronicles the horrifying story of Father Juan Bautista de Albadán, a Spanish priest to the Chanka people of Pampachiri in Peru from 1601 to 1611. During his reign of terror over his Andean parish, Albadán was guilty of murder, sexual abuse, sadistic torture, and theft from his parishioners, amassing a personal fortune at their expense. For ten years, he escaped punishment for these crimes by deceiving and outwitting his superiors in the colonial government and church administration. Drawing on a rema...
Mobile artisans, male and female, were responsible for many innovations and new consumer products. This book asks why, and shows the importance of collective traditions of migration, of the experience of mobility, and of the encounter with new places.
A study of representations of the French Atlantic slave trade in the history, literature, and film of France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean.
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The voyage of the French slave ship The Diligent is recreated by the author to investigate the economic, political, and moral worldviews of the participants on all sides of the slave trade.
In the sixteenth century hundreds of thousands of indios—indigenous peoples from the territories of the Spanish empire—were enslaved and relocated throughout the Iberian world. Although various laws and decrees outlawed indio enslavement, several loopholes allowed the practice to continue. In Global Indios Nancy E. van Deusen documents the more than one hundred lawsuits between 1530 and 1585 that indio slaves living in Castile brought to the Spanish courts to secure their freedom. Because plaintiffs had to prove their indio-ness in a Spanish imperial context, these lawsuits reveal the difficulties of determining who was an indio and who was not—especially since it was an all-encompassing construct connoting subservience and political personhood and at times could refer to people from Mexico, Peru, or South or East Asia. Van Deusen demonstrates that the categories of free and slave were often not easily defined, and she forces a rethinking of the meaning of indio in ways that emphasize the need to situate colonial Spanish American indigenous subjects in a global context.
And in the Caribbean, the introduction of new plantation crops was creating an unprecedented demand for slave labor.".
Volume 1. A cultural history of genocide in the ancient world / edited by Tristan S. Taylor -- volume 2. A cultural history of genocide in the middle ages / edited by Melodie H. Eichbauer -- volume 3. A cultural history of genocide in the early modern world / edited by Igor Pérez Tostado -- volume 4. A cultural history of genocide in the long nineteenth century / edited by David A. Meola -- volume 5. A cultural history of genocide in the era of total war / edited by Elisa von Joeden-Fogey -- volume 6. A cultural history of genocide in the modern world / edited by Deborah Mayersen.