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Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012 Paper: 978-0-8229-6193-2 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-7796-4 Library of Congress Classification F3429.3.G6O9 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 305.800985
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Bound Lives chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah O’Toole examines the construction of a casta (caste) system under the Spanish government, and how this system was negotiated and employed by Andeans and Africans. See other books on: Colonization | Government relations | Indians | Indians of South America | Peru See other titles from University of Pittsburgh Press |
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Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012
Paper: 978-0-8229-6193-2
eISBN: 978-0-8229-7796-4
Paper: 978-0-8229-6193-2
eISBN: 978-0-8229-7796-4
Bound Lives chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah O’Toole examines the construction of a casta (caste) system under the Spanish government, and how this system was negotiated and employed by Andeans and Africans.
Royal and viceregal authorities defined legal identities of “Indian” and “Black” to separate the two groups and commit each to specific trades and labor. Although they were legally divided, Andeans and Africans freely interacted and depended on each other in their daily lives. Thus, the caste system was defined at both the top and bottom of society. Within each caste, there were myriad subcategories that also determined one’s standing.
The imperial legal system also strictly delineated civil rights. Andeans were afforded greater protections as a “threatened” native population. Despite this, with the crown’s approval during the rise of the sugar trade, Andeans were driven from their communal property and conscripted into a forced labor program. They soon rebelled, migrating away from the plantations to the highlands. Andeans worked as artisans, muleteers, and laborers for hire, and used their legal status as Indians to gain political representation.
As slaves, Africans were subject to the judgments of local authorities, which nearly always sided with the slaveholder. Africans soon articulated a rhetoric of valuation, to protect themselves in disputes with their captors and in slave trading negotiations. To combat the ongoing diaspora from Africa, slaves developed strong kinship ties and offered communal support to the newly arrived.
Bound Lives offers an entirely new perspective on racial identities in colonial Peru. It highlights the tenuous interactions of an imperial power, indigenous group, and enslaved population, and shows how each moved to establish its own power base and modify the existing system to its advantage, while also shaping the nature of colonialism itself.
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