Vient de paraître The Capital of Free Women. Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico de Danielle Terrazas Williams aux Yale University Press

Vient de paraître The Capital of Free Women. Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico de Danielle Terrazas Williams aux Yale University Press, 2022, 296 p. ISBN : 9780300258066 Prix : 65 $.

"A restoration of the agency and influence of free African-descended women in colonial Mexico through their traces in archives.
The Capital of Free Women examines how African-descended women strove for dignity in seventeenth-century Mexico. Free women in central Veracruz, sometimes just one generation removed from slavery, purchased land, ran businesses, managed intergenerational wealth, and owned slaves of African descent. Drawing from archives in Mexico, Spain, and Italy, Danielle Terrazas Williams explores the lives of African-descended women across the economic spectrum, evaluates their elite sensibilities, and challenges notions of race and class in the colonial period."

Danielle Terrazas Williams (https://twitter.com/DrDanielleTW/) is Lecturer in the School of History at the University of Leeds. She won the Kimberly S. Hanger Prize from the Southern Historical Association for the research and writing of material included in this book.