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..., “Patrons, Clients, and Kin,” 262; Charney, “Implications of Godparental Ties,” 295; Hanger, Bounded Lives , 90; Higgins, “Licentious Liberty , ” 133–44; Lauderdale Graham, Caetana Says No , 45–46; Haas, “Il Mio Buono Compare,” 347. 4. For works that discuss godparent selection in the context...

... while embodying their freedom of choice and sexuality. Chapters 7 and 8 take us to Puerto Rico. David Stark reveals how enslaved and free people of color employed godparenting to forge and strengthen social relations. His impressive use of San Juan s baptismal records illuminates patterns in selecting...

... they confronted criminal prosecution while embodying their freedom of choice and sexuality. Chapters 7 and 8 take us to Puerto Rico. David Stark reveals how enslaved and free people of color employed godparenting to forge and strengthen social relations. His impressive use of San Juan s baptismal records...

... and the increased intimacy resulting from it. In the mining regions of northern New Spain, the representation of Spaniards as godparents for slave children increased during the period between 1652 and 1749. During that time, Spanish women served as godmothers for nearly 30 percent of slave children baptized...

... as the godparent of a child of a non-European under their authority. 63 At the same time, a mechanism appears to have been operating to discourage the establishment of a compadre relationship between a slave, servant, or tributary and any member of the kinship network which would compete with the relationship...

..., for bringing in the human dimension. Quantification appears to be good and useful, but that of the “social bonding” of the various socioracial groups (that is, intermarriage and choice of matrimonial witnesses and godparents) was relatively less rewarding (see, e.g., pp. 88ff.). Also, Carroll’s frequent...

... no such restraints were imposed. In short, as the elite became more integrated, so too did power become more widely and evenly distributed within it. An interdisciplinary perspective on baptismal godparents in the slavocratic regime of colonial Bahia was adopted by Stephen Gudeman and Stuart B. Schwartz (University...

...  Substitution 10 1 3 3 — —   Subtotal 160 50 6 247 106 41   Percentage 47.6 17.8 7.0 63.3 28.9 24.0 Paid by others  Mother — 8 — — 18 —  Father — 2 — — — —  Other kin — 1 — — — —  Godparent — 1 — — 2 —  Abolitionist society — — — — 12...

... their acquisition of Iberian language skills and embrace of Catholicism. This process was facilitated by African intermediaries, who served as interpreters or godparents for enslaved captives at the time of their baptism. Africans and their descendants actively participated in the colonization of the Spanish...

... of certain patterns in ritual godparentage and the minimal role masters played as godparents of their slaves. The literature on Brazilian slavery has grown so much in the past few decades that it has become the privileged province of a handful of specialists. The centrality of slavery to Brazilian...

... and structures of a society. The author examines markets, government, and compadrazgo in the city of Yungay and demonstrates how each of these was modified by the disaster. The changes in wage structures, ethnic relationships, and even godparent selection all suggest lines of research that historians might wish...

... who remained mostly in the shadows of conquest. In particular, two Franciscan confessional manuals ( confesionarios ) of the late eighteenth century, combined with the Spanish Mexican cultural practice of Catholic godparenting ( compadrazgo ) as reconstructed from baptismal and marriage sacramental...

... parents, siblings, and other close relatives as well as in-laws to be their children’s godparents” (p. 145) would not only have benefited from a more quantified presentation of ritual kinship choices but from the comparison of Brioceño practices with what George Foster ( Culture and Conquest: America’s...

... — for social peace, survival, the urban economy, and even in military terms — is central to Graham’s argument about Salvador’s pliant social hierarchy. Graham delves into an impressive range of archival material. He makes social networks visible by investigating who people married, chose as godparents...

... during the early nineteenth century, fewer long-distance immigrants became permanently attached to estates and small holdings. Still, short-distance migration remained important. 42 Many of these migrants went to live with their godparents or distant kin on neighboring estates and thus appear...

...-1713) Desembargador Belchior Ramires de Carvalho servcd as godparent for Gonçalo, son of plantation owner, Antônio Gomes and his wife Ana Maria de Castelo Branco (December 4, 1694). 19 José Justiano Andrade e Silva, Collecção chronológica da legislação portugueza ( 1603-1700 ) (10 vols...

... and marital godparents. The Brazilian records include, as well, a number of valuable testaments by Africans not generally found in the Cuban and borderland records. Brazilian wills offer important information on the occupations, property, and economy of free and enslaved Africans, as well as additional...

... depended on the reinforcement of blood ties through compadrazgo and marriage. In each Larraín branch, godparents were chosen from immediate kin, rarely from outside the family or from the other branch. 7 As in many families, marriages were arranged between cousins, between uncles and nieces, or between...

... into a family and given its name. There is no clear pattern among the seventeen partidos for which we have data. The category of ahijado deals with children living with their godparents, but, for one reason or another, were not formally adopted. This can be seen in that several partidos list both...

... usually depended on themselves or on their slave relatives for the necessary sum. Godparents, charity subscriptions, the master or his relatives, and unrelated free persons together accounted for only six percent of the paid manumissions. As Table IX demonstrates, in 81 percent of the paid manumissions...