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Hispanic American Historical Review (1959) 39 (3): 488–489.
Published: 01 August 1959
...Lowell Ragatz Bondsmen and Bishops. Slavery and Apprenticeship on the Codrington Plantations of Barbados, 1710-1838 . By Bennett J. Harry Jr . Berkeley and Los Angeles , 1958 . University of California Press . University of California Publications in History, Vol. LXII . Foreword...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (3): 569–581.
Published: 01 August 1983
...— which is not likely, given the evidence from other areas and periods—this would still imply at least a moderate importation of slaves during the nineteenth century. It would also point to an extraordinary influx of bondsmen during the preceding century, which would pose another problem needing...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (4): 755–757.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., and culture shaped identity. Chapter 1 addresses how the nature of slave labor in New Spain dictated the lives of bondsmen and bondswomen as sugar workers in and around Morelos, and textile workers in the areas of Mexico City and Querétaro. Refuting several existing scholarly consensuses, Proctor argues...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (3): 537–567.
Published: 01 August 1983
..., retreating with their masters into the subsistence sector, where they became economically “redundant” or “underutilized.” In the nineteenth century, after a few decades of economic soul-searching, coffee became the dominant industry in the provincial economy, and the bondsmen were transferred en masse from...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (4): 639–655.
Published: 01 November 1969
... the immigrants incited the spirit of liberty. The presence of these numerous free laborers in São Paulo, working side by side with the bondsmen, did much to undermine slavery. Also important were the free Negroes who empathized with their brothers in bondage, and often they escorted their own relatives...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (3): 435–468.
Published: 01 August 2002
.... Under Spanish law, mistreated slaves could ask for protection of civil courts, but in practice few slaves benefited from this legal instance during the first two centuries of Spanish domination. 10 For the great majority of bondsmen, work slowdowns, maroonage, banditry, occasional outburst of rioting...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (1): 135–146.
Published: 01 February 1984
... relevant questions raised by them. 1 Our findings regarding the slave trade to Minas have convinced Sienes, who also indicates that the Mineiro exports could have paid for the imports of bondsmen. He questions, however, the accuracy of the underlying population data. In the opinion of a leading...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (2): 373–374.
Published: 01 May 2001
... local families. Seen from a broader perspective, they normally married into the viceroyalty’s “secondary elites.” Their incorporation in established family networks, of course, served all participants. Friendships and business relationships, including the need for bondsmen, also bound officials to local...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (1): 97–99.
Published: 01 February 1995
... and Material Culture of Slaves does much to reveal the hidden world of the slaves’ economy— not only within the slave community but between slaves and masters over the allocation of labor and exchange, among masters who disagreed about the scope of independence allowed bondsmen, and between masters and non...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (4): 873–874.
Published: 01 November 1988
... for the centenary of abolition, this collection of 77 lucid carte-de-visite images of Carioca bondsmen between 1864 and 1866 offers stunning visual information about the face of urban slavery in Brazil. Four brief essays precede the full-size photographic reproductions: a biography of the photographer, José...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (4): 725–727.
Published: 01 November 1994
... essay deals with slave godparentage as a means to understand slave families and their adaptation to the surrounding environment, as well as a way to test masters’ paternalism with regard to their bondsmen. Comparing his own findings with those of other researchers, Schwartz shows the persistence...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (1): 149–150.
Published: 01 February 1994
...-century census reports rather than by any dynamic, historical process; indeed, Metcalf fails to define convincingly what she understands to be planters, peasants, and even slaves, if we are to include native bondsmen. Not all readers may agree that a constellation of relatively isolated sitiantes —rural...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (4): 603–635.
Published: 01 November 1974
... certain religious obligations. In ten cases libertos had to pay for masses for their former owner’s soul. Masters sometimes showed themselves particularly reluctant to forfeit the special services or skills of their bondsmen. In 1728, a woman freed her slave, a seamstress, but required her to continue...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (4): 649–687.
Published: 01 November 1994
... their bondsmen, slaves often succeeded in selling produce from their plots. Thus, in several plantation regions, provision grounds and gardens allowed slaves to develop an extensive and even impressive range of independent production and marketing activities. 1 The possibility that similar independent...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (3): 467–491.
Published: 01 August 1985
..., colonial authorities always required of the recipients that bonds be posted. This bureaucratic procedure entailed a kind of compadrazgo (godparenthood) relationship. The fiadores or padrinos (“bondsmen”) were in a cultural sense like bridges between Buenos Aires creole society and Portuguese newcomers...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (2): 197–216.
Published: 01 May 1976
... comes from records showing that Indians, even those confined to obrajes , recognized and took advantage of Spanish legal customs to secure their release. Indians assured their freedom by finding bondsmen, who guaranteed that they would continue working until the debt was repaid. By any standard, life...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (3): 429–457.
Published: 01 August 1982
... dealings not guaranteed by personal pledges of real property were covered by bondsmen ( fiadores ) who themselves had estates with which to insure the debt. An examination of documents concerning bondsmen shows that whatever their declared occupations, they were normally property owners whose real estate...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (1): 2–28.
Published: 01 February 1981
... on waiting lists. Newly designated appointees had to finance their trip to Cadiz; support themselves while awaiting shipping; purchase personal belongings and other items; and pay passage to Veracruz or a more southerly port. Once arrived at Mexico City or Lima, appointees were obliged to find bondsmen...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (4): 761–779.
Published: 01 November 1991
... one and six bondsmen. The wealthier owned more than ten blacks, and José de Andújar left twenty-two when he died. 26 The poor members of the cattle-ranching group owned no slaves, and they clearly predominated. In San Vicente by 1815 only 20 percent of the criadores possessed slaves. TABLE 2...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (4): 636–640.
Published: 01 November 1974
..., probably, does not fie in the middle but with the members’ allegation. 51 ACC, LC IV, fols. 172-176. Governor Miguel de García, for example, had ten bondsmen, each of whom provided a guarantee of 1000 pesos. 52 The Crown implicitly sanctioned the practice, for instance, when it accepted 2000...
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