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Through an examination of early modern African-European encounters, African Kings and Black Slaves offers a reappraisal of the dominant depiction of these exchanges as simple economic transactions: rather, according to Herman L. Bennett, they involved clashing understandings of diplomacy, sovereignty, and politics.

Herman L. Bennett is Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is author of Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico and Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640.

Asking readers to imagine a history of Mexico narrated through theexperiences of Africans and their descendants, this book offers a radicalreconfiguration of Latin American history. Using ecclesiastical and inquisitorialrecords, Herman L. Bennett frames the history of Mexico around the private lives andliberty that Catholicism engendered among enslaved Africans and free blacks, whobecame majority populations soon after the Spanish conquest. Th...

This book charts new directions in thinking about the constructionof new world identities.... Bennett does a masterful job." -- Judith A.Byfield, Dartmouth In this study of the largest population of freeand slave Africans in the New World, Herman L. Bennett has uncovered much newinformation about the lives of slave and free blacks, the ways that their lives wereregulated by the government and the Church, the impact upon them of the Inquisition...