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Through the Gate of the Media Luna: Slavery and the Geographies of Legal Status in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (3): 391–421.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Ana María Silva Campo Abstract This article examines the fate of people who had escaped slavery in colonial Cartagena de Indias as well as that of their descendants. In the 1690s, colonial military troops captured many individuals of African descent who had long lived as free in the hinterlands...
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The Echo of Voices after the Fall of the Aztec Empire
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (2): 217–249.
Published: 01 May 2023
... that has often escaped the attention of scholars. An analysis of routines of indoctrination centered on vocal modulations reveals that authorities hierarchized different forms of sounds, from singing and praying—which they encouraged—to screams and muffled noises such as murmur and chatter—which...
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A “Safe Haven”: Runaway Slaves, Mocambos, and Borders in Colonial Amazonia, Brazil
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (3): 469–498.
Published: 01 August 2002
.... Forts were built. Boundary markers were put in place. Laws and regulations were sent. Several kinds of adventures were beginning for the men and women in those parts. Fugitives created escape routes. Flight and the establishment of maroon societies ( mocambos ) in those borderlands took on new...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (2): 381–382.
Published: 01 May 1986
... of the Caribbean slave society. Nistal-Moret points out that there were relatively few escapes by maroons in Puerto Rico, especially by Caribbean standards for the large islands. However, there were more escapes by slaves than has been assumed. The documentation in the archives is spotty, yet what exists...
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La inmigración fascista en la Argentina
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (2): 384–386.
Published: 01 May 2009
... recognizes that, for many of the escapees, the reasons to leave included the lack of political prospects in Italy; she also argues that, for most of them, “escaping” was more related to economic possibilities in the New World. In short, ideological and cultural developments are not given the centrality...
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From Slave Rebels to Strikebreakers: The Quilombo of Jabaquara and the Problem of Citizenship in Late-Nineteenth-Century Brazil
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (2): 247–274.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 This article reexamines the historical trajectory of escaped slaves who, encouraged by the abolitionist propaganda of the 1880s, established themselves in the runaway slave communities of Jabaquara and Pai Felipe...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (4): 639–655.
Published: 01 November 1969
... the servile institution. São Paulo had experienced slave escapes throughout the nineteenth century, but most of these incidents had only involved the efforts of individual bondsmen. Occasionally, a group of slaves would attempt to flee together, but if caught they would be paraded through the streets, whipped...
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The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (3): 540–542.
Published: 01 August 2014
... in modern concepts” (p. 205). Spanish Florida began providing refuge for enslaved Africans escaping from British America early in the eighteenth century. By the early 1800s the long-standing tension caused by this within the southeast had intensified, especially when native peoples began to split...
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The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 154–156.
Published: 01 February 2020
... on their growing knowledge of riverine and forest escape routes and utilizing geographical features like waterfalls to evade their pursuers. After abolition, these river- and forest-based skills enabled maroon descendants to maintain their hard-won autonomy, even as they moved closer to regional towns...
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Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 176–177.
Published: 01 February 2012
... the rigidity of the East Indian caste system) in order to “escape the overtly biological determinative model of race” (p. 8). Identity, they argue, connotes a multinodal approach to the construction of personhood that recognizes no primary factor. Still, despite that proposal and the repeated assertions by all...
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The Limits of Liberty: Mobility and the Making of the Eastern US-Mexico Border
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (2): 369–371.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Alice Baumgartner Uncovering the perspective of Indians, escaped slaves, and debt peons using archives in both Mexico and the United States is an ambitious task. Historians of Mexico may find that the book's treatment of Federalists and Centralists lacks nuance, while scholars of the United...
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Other Geographies of Struggle: Afro-Brazilians and the American Civil War
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 35–62.
Published: 01 February 2020
... regions of Rio de Janeiro. Amid the vibrancy of waterfront life, black maritime workers would have been among the first locals to spot the Sumter in the port. The “American vessel” was the first Confederate cruiser to escape the federal blockade of the Mississippi River and had already made the news...
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El pensamiento del padre Mier
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (1): 105–106.
Published: 01 February 1946
..., to withhold all evidence which would have incriminated or led to the capture of the other patriots. Her escape from custody, engineered by the Morelistas, and her arduous life with the roving insurgent army were dramatic episodes in the war for independence, but her later career, as wife of the statesman...
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Crossing to Safety? Frontier Flight in Eighteenth-Century Belize and Yucatan
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (3): 381–419.
Published: 01 August 2014
... and escape to the Spaniards. For example, it was alleged that from 1763 to 1769 Spanish boats sat at the river mouths waiting for escapees and that Spaniards systematically seduced away from Belize the slaves they found in fishing and turtling vessels. Baymen complained that the lookout post of San Antonio...
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Fuga del General Beresford, 1807
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (1): 103–104.
Published: 01 February 1967
... Plata in 1806 raised the hopes of several residents of that area who were interested in independence from Spain. Within this framework the author of the present well-documented study has endeavored to show that the “escape” of General William C. Beresford from his porteño captors in 1807 was planned...
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Samuel H. Walkers Account of the Mier Expedition
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (4): 719–720.
Published: 01 November 1980
...Curt Lamar In the telling of his subsequent period of imprisonment in Tacubaya, and of his successful escape from Mexico, Walker demonstrates a rather attractive narrative style which Mrs. Sibley has left virtually intact. In the editor’s observation, Walker’s journal gives little new...
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Cuna
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (4): 626–627.
Published: 01 November 1967
... the scientist account for the numerous albinos among the San Blas instead of attributing them to “European blood … from the Spanish era” (p. 55). Balboa, “the fencing master” did not hide in a barrel to escape from Spain (p. 24) but to escape his creditors in Santo Domingo. Apparently the author is not aware...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (3): 493–494.
Published: 01 August 1972
... milder race relations. The better Brazilian situation, he suggests, is partly the result of a “mulatto escape hatch,” a special place in society for the Brazilian mulatto which has no counterpart in the United States. This “escape hatch” is perhaps more a result than a cause of better race relations...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (3): 602–603.
Published: 01 August 1970
... of recent immigrants from Mexico, hoping to escape some of the prejudice and discrimination being systematically and brutally visited on the latter. The stratagem has worked to a certain extent, in that upper- and middle-class “Spanish Americans” have been able to escape many of the ethnic liabilities...
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Dos mujeres fuera de serie: Elvia Carrillo Puerto y Felipa Poot Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 342–344.
Published: 01 May 2010
... servitude as well as protecting widows and female orphans. A surprising number of cases were in fact initiated by young indigenous women seeking to escape domestic bondage that was socially sanctioned as a quasi-familial relationship. Litigants invoked notions of revolutionary justice to escape exploitation...
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