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    5. Nharas and Morenas Horras: A Luso-African Model for the Social History of the Spanish Caribbean, c. 1570-1640

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Wheat,David (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Early Modern History
    Journal Title Details:
    14(1) : 119-150
    Notes:
    Argues that free African and African-descended women participated in Spain's colonization of the Caribbean to a degree that has not been fully recognized. Regularly described as vecinas (heads of household) and as spouses to Iberian men in key port cities, free women of color played active roles in the formation and maintenance of Spanish Caribbean society during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, not as peripheral or marginalized figures, but as non-elite insiders who pursued their own best interests and those of their families and associates.