Book of Donmon Teith

An account of the transformation of cultural assumptions affecting parental authority and children's freedom to choose marriage partners, this book traces colon

From secular and ecclesiastical court records, Bennett reconstructs the lives of slave and free blacks, their regulation by the government and by the Church, th

The Catholic Church played a significant role in social action in colonial Latin America: a time when the Church was the most important institution next to the

The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, the female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the

Details how African-descended women's societal, marital, and sexual decisions forever reshaped the racial makeup of Argentina Argentina promotes itself as a cou