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, their legal status in marriage, and their rights and obligations as Christiansubjects.