This lecture discusses slavery and colonial society in late colonial Mexico. It notes that while slavery was important, free black labor was even more significant in urban and regional economies. The lecturer also provides context on the Bourbon Reforms in the late 18th century. The reforms aimed to centralize control over the colonies, curb smuggling, and increase royal revenues through measures like taxes and monopolies over key industries. This caused unrest among colonial elites and merchants who lost economic autonomy and faced higher taxes under the new system.
The document discusses factors that contributed to decline in civilizations in Chapter 19, including disease, inferior technology, civil unrest, superstition, and belief in doomsday. It then provides details on the Spanish conquests of the Aztec empire in Mexico led by Hernan Cortes in 1519 and the Inca empire in Peru led by Francisco Pizarro in 1532, noting how alliances and capturing leaders helped the Spanish conquer these civilizations. The Spanish then established control over the newly claimed lands in both Mexico and Peru.
The document summarizes biographies of several individuals from colonial Latin America. It describes Don Melchior Caruarayco, an Andean lord who faced hardship under Spanish colonial rule, including declining population, forced conversion to Christianity, and loss of his title. It also describes Domingos Fernandes Nobre, a man of mixed Portuguese-Indian descent who exploited indigenous people for profit but faced accusations of heresy. Finally, it provides details on the life of Jose Antonio da Silva, a commander whose high social status allowed numerous sexual encounters and illegitimate children within the context of colonial Latin American marriage politics.
Damiana da Cunha was a tribal woman in Brazil in the 1700s-1830s who served as a teacher, missionary, mediator, and expedition leader. As the granddaughter of a tribal chief, she bridged the cultures of the indigenous peoples and Portuguese settlers through her education and leadership roles. She led several expeditions to convert indigenous groups to Christianity before dying on her fifth expedition in 1831.
The document provides brief biographies of several individuals from the Spanish colonial period in Latin America between the 15th-21st centuries. It describes explorers like Christopher Columbus and conquistadors such as Hernan Cortes who helped establish the Spanish Empire. It also profiles indigenous people, people of mixed heritage, and slaves who lived during this time period and the roles and challenges they faced under Spanish colonial rule.
The document summarizes the early history of Latin America following the Spanish and Portuguese conquests in the 15th-16th centuries. It describes how the Iberian powers established control over large empires through the conquests of the Aztec and Inca, and then established systems of rule including viceroyalties. It discusses the multicultural societies that emerged, with Europeans, indigenous peoples, and enslaved Africans occupying different social classes. The economies were based around mining for gold and silver and the establishment of haciendas, encomiendas, and sugar plantations that relied on forced indigenous and slave labor.
Discussion Question(s)Could Latin American reactions to the Bour.docxduketjoy27252
Discussion Question(s)
Could Latin American reactions to the Bourbon (Caroline era) Reforms be attributed to intellectual change (Enlightenment), religious changes (expulsion of the Jesuits, for instance), economic change (taxes), or political change (taking criollos off their prestigious jobs and replacing them with Peninsulars)? Was it any one of these specifically? All of them? (and if you are going to say "all of them," do you think one might have had more influence than the others?) Why?
Lecture 12
This is where things start to get serious, because Spain isn't playing around anymore. Yes, we are still talking about the Bourbon Reforms- but more specifically, the Caroline Reforms (which happened during the reign of King Charles III, from 1759-1788). The reason that this is so important is because there was a lot of stuff happening during this period: rebellions, revolts, the expulsion of the Jesuits (a specific Catholic order of priests) from Spanish America and Spain, and perhaps most of all, more political reorganization.
But the question is the same as it was last week: why? Well, as we noted last week, there were a lot of conflicts in which Spain had found itself on the wrong side. Take, for example, The Seven Years' War: this particular war is known these days as the first true World War, but for a long time it was called the French and Indian War.
Oooh!!!!--- why was it called the "French and Indian War"? Because the people who named it that (British and British colonists in North America) believed that the world revolved around them. "we are fighting the French and the Indians-- let's call it the French and Indian War!" Of course, when you call it that you are ignoring the fact that it wasn't just the French, Indians, and British fighting one another. In fact, here is who was fighting:
1) France
2) Native Americans (on both sides in North America)
3) Britain
4) Saxony
5) Sweden
6) Russia
7) Prussia (basically Germany)
8) Hanover (basically more Germany)
9) Spain (later)
10) Portugal (later)
And this war (the fighting), with all these people involved, took place in:
1) Europe
2) Africa
3) North America
4) Philippines
5) India
6) Central America
The war was happening everywhere, it seems. And yet, people in the United States called it The French and Indian War. Dorks. I kind of want to tell the British and their colonists in North America this:
But that's why they called it the French and Indian War for so long.
In any case, Spain-- as noted above-- came late to the party, and joined the war on the French side in 1762.
As you might have predicted, this did not go well. France lost, but more importantly for our purposes, Spain lost by extension. And they lost big! First and foremost, they lost Cuba (albeit temporarily), they lost Florida-- gone forever in the Spanish empire (however, considering what it turned into in the 21st century,
maybe they dodged a bullet (this link is not for the faint of heart.
Discussion Question(s)Clearly there is potential for major probl.docxduketjoy27252
Discussion Question(s)
Clearly there is potential for major problems as the Bourbon Reforms are enacted over much of the 18th century. What were those problems? In what way do you think the Spanish crown could have lessened the pain of these reforms while still maintaining control over the Spanish colonies? Or was there no hope? (and if there was no hope, why do you say that?)
Lecture 11
Wen I was a young undergraduate (at a community college in southern California that will remain nameless-- I will give you all one guess in our discussion forum), I remember the week that my class was to discuss The Bourbon Reforms.
Sadly, it was not about what I was hoping.
Sigh.
Nonetheless, I remember being really interested in what was happening, because it was at this point in the class that I started to see the long chain of events that led to independence throughout most Latin American countries.
See, before I learned about the Bourbon Reforms, I was under the impression that the Independence movements (and wars) in Latin America happened from the bottom-up, which is to say that I thought they were led by Mestizos, Castas, and indigenous folks. For example, think of Mexico: Father Hidalgo, a priest and a champion of the peasant classes in New Spain (Mexico), he brings all these different people together-- people who have been stepped on for too long by colonial powers, and he issues "El Grito,", which was a unified cry of the underrepresented people for independence! Together, they would finally throw off the yoke of Spanish oppression and lead their own country to INDEPENDENCE! Yaaaaaayyyyy!
Sadly, it didn't happen like that.
Yes, Father Hidalgo did issue "El Grito de Dolores," but the conditions that led to the independence movement in New Spain (and the changing of its name to Mexico) didn't hit the peasants the hardest (the peasants were already being hit pretty hard), and the Independence movement was not led by peasants, the working classes, nor the indigenous people-- even if they did spark it. In fact, some say that Father Hidalgo and the people following him didn't want independence...they just wanted a better king.
But let's save that disappointment for later.
See, when I took that class and learned what the Bourbon Reforms were, I started to understand why independence happened throughout much of Latin America in the early 19th century (1800s).
The Bourbon Reforms (and the Caroline Reforms within them) were a set of political, economic, and administrative changes that came from Spain.
Now, speaking quite generally, one of the biggest changes was one that happened gradually, then suddenly: the termination of the sale of
audiencia
positions. See, up until this point, much of Spanish Latin America operated on that old saying that I have brought up a few times, "
obedezco pero no cumplo
", which roughly translated means, "I obey but I do not comply." (you may have a better translation-- give it a shot in the forum!)
.
Discussion Question(s)The reading for this week was a grab bag o.docxduketjoy27252
Discussion Question(s)
The reading for this week was a grab bag of different perspectives on life under colonial rule, or "living in an empire." They talked about the city and the countryside, religious life and secular life, popular culture, education, and intellectual development, and so on. Which of these sections struck you as being most interesting? Which struck you as being most important for the study of colonial (and perhaps modern!) Latin America? Why?
Lecture 10
What does it mean to live in an empire?
No, that's probably not what you were thinking. Instead, were you thinking something like this?
Maybe. Star Wars, for people who might not know (I don't know what college students are into these days), looks like a simple tale of good against evil. The evil empire fighting against a scrappy band of rebels intent on overthrowing their evil masters. In a sense, this might be the way that you see colonial Latin America, too-- the evil Spanish against the good indigenous people of the Americas. I wouldn't blame you, either-- after weeks of learning about the conquest, encomiendas, the mita system (under the Spanish) and the doings of the Catholic church (especially during the conquest), it would be easy to think of the Spanish empire (or the Spanish) as evil. In fact, I don't think I am going to try and convince you otherwise.
However, it might be worth remembering that we are looking at this history right now, in 2015-- not in the period itself. Therefore, whereas today you might think of the Spanish as evil, as time passed during the colonial era in Latin America, for the poor, the castas, and yes the indigenous folks, the Spanish and the Spanish colonial system was simply a way of life. It was something that they lived with, adjusted to, and yes, even sometimes rebelled against (locally, of course, not on a large scale. That happens later).
Therefore, to stretch the Star Wars metaphor even further (yikes), I would say that even though most of you might think of Spanish colonialism like this--
-- it is more likely that it was much more like this:
In other words, we can all agree that in hindsight that colonial Latin America was oppressive, but for most people, instead of plotting rebellion in their basements or back rooms, most people just tried to find a way to survive in the middle of it all, and make the best life they could for themselves despite the horrible conditions. So we can think about how nice and pure life would have been without the invasion of the Spanish, but since that was a luxury that the poor, the castas, and the indigenous people living in colonial Latin America did not have, we might instead think about the ways in which colonial society forced adjustments upon how various groups of people lived, as the colonial empire itself expanded and became more and more complex.
Spain asserted its control through urban planning. Cities were laid out in grids, centered on the most important government buil.
The document discusses factors that contributed to decline in civilizations in Chapter 19, including disease, inferior technology, civil unrest, superstition, and belief in doomsday. It then provides details on the Spanish conquests of the Aztec empire in Mexico led by Hernan Cortes in 1519 and the Inca empire in Peru led by Francisco Pizarro in 1532, noting how alliances and capturing leaders helped the Spanish conquer these civilizations. The Spanish then established control over the newly claimed lands in both Mexico and Peru.
The document summarizes biographies of several individuals from colonial Latin America. It describes Don Melchior Caruarayco, an Andean lord who faced hardship under Spanish colonial rule, including declining population, forced conversion to Christianity, and loss of his title. It also describes Domingos Fernandes Nobre, a man of mixed Portuguese-Indian descent who exploited indigenous people for profit but faced accusations of heresy. Finally, it provides details on the life of Jose Antonio da Silva, a commander whose high social status allowed numerous sexual encounters and illegitimate children within the context of colonial Latin American marriage politics.
Damiana da Cunha was a tribal woman in Brazil in the 1700s-1830s who served as a teacher, missionary, mediator, and expedition leader. As the granddaughter of a tribal chief, she bridged the cultures of the indigenous peoples and Portuguese settlers through her education and leadership roles. She led several expeditions to convert indigenous groups to Christianity before dying on her fifth expedition in 1831.
The document provides brief biographies of several individuals from the Spanish colonial period in Latin America between the 15th-21st centuries. It describes explorers like Christopher Columbus and conquistadors such as Hernan Cortes who helped establish the Spanish Empire. It also profiles indigenous people, people of mixed heritage, and slaves who lived during this time period and the roles and challenges they faced under Spanish colonial rule.
The document summarizes the early history of Latin America following the Spanish and Portuguese conquests in the 15th-16th centuries. It describes how the Iberian powers established control over large empires through the conquests of the Aztec and Inca, and then established systems of rule including viceroyalties. It discusses the multicultural societies that emerged, with Europeans, indigenous peoples, and enslaved Africans occupying different social classes. The economies were based around mining for gold and silver and the establishment of haciendas, encomiendas, and sugar plantations that relied on forced indigenous and slave labor.
Discussion Question(s)Could Latin American reactions to the Bour.docxduketjoy27252
Discussion Question(s)
Could Latin American reactions to the Bourbon (Caroline era) Reforms be attributed to intellectual change (Enlightenment), religious changes (expulsion of the Jesuits, for instance), economic change (taxes), or political change (taking criollos off their prestigious jobs and replacing them with Peninsulars)? Was it any one of these specifically? All of them? (and if you are going to say "all of them," do you think one might have had more influence than the others?) Why?
Lecture 12
This is where things start to get serious, because Spain isn't playing around anymore. Yes, we are still talking about the Bourbon Reforms- but more specifically, the Caroline Reforms (which happened during the reign of King Charles III, from 1759-1788). The reason that this is so important is because there was a lot of stuff happening during this period: rebellions, revolts, the expulsion of the Jesuits (a specific Catholic order of priests) from Spanish America and Spain, and perhaps most of all, more political reorganization.
But the question is the same as it was last week: why? Well, as we noted last week, there were a lot of conflicts in which Spain had found itself on the wrong side. Take, for example, The Seven Years' War: this particular war is known these days as the first true World War, but for a long time it was called the French and Indian War.
Oooh!!!!--- why was it called the "French and Indian War"? Because the people who named it that (British and British colonists in North America) believed that the world revolved around them. "we are fighting the French and the Indians-- let's call it the French and Indian War!" Of course, when you call it that you are ignoring the fact that it wasn't just the French, Indians, and British fighting one another. In fact, here is who was fighting:
1) France
2) Native Americans (on both sides in North America)
3) Britain
4) Saxony
5) Sweden
6) Russia
7) Prussia (basically Germany)
8) Hanover (basically more Germany)
9) Spain (later)
10) Portugal (later)
And this war (the fighting), with all these people involved, took place in:
1) Europe
2) Africa
3) North America
4) Philippines
5) India
6) Central America
The war was happening everywhere, it seems. And yet, people in the United States called it The French and Indian War. Dorks. I kind of want to tell the British and their colonists in North America this:
But that's why they called it the French and Indian War for so long.
In any case, Spain-- as noted above-- came late to the party, and joined the war on the French side in 1762.
As you might have predicted, this did not go well. France lost, but more importantly for our purposes, Spain lost by extension. And they lost big! First and foremost, they lost Cuba (albeit temporarily), they lost Florida-- gone forever in the Spanish empire (however, considering what it turned into in the 21st century,
maybe they dodged a bullet (this link is not for the faint of heart.
Discussion Question(s)Clearly there is potential for major probl.docxduketjoy27252
Discussion Question(s)
Clearly there is potential for major problems as the Bourbon Reforms are enacted over much of the 18th century. What were those problems? In what way do you think the Spanish crown could have lessened the pain of these reforms while still maintaining control over the Spanish colonies? Or was there no hope? (and if there was no hope, why do you say that?)
Lecture 11
Wen I was a young undergraduate (at a community college in southern California that will remain nameless-- I will give you all one guess in our discussion forum), I remember the week that my class was to discuss The Bourbon Reforms.
Sadly, it was not about what I was hoping.
Sigh.
Nonetheless, I remember being really interested in what was happening, because it was at this point in the class that I started to see the long chain of events that led to independence throughout most Latin American countries.
See, before I learned about the Bourbon Reforms, I was under the impression that the Independence movements (and wars) in Latin America happened from the bottom-up, which is to say that I thought they were led by Mestizos, Castas, and indigenous folks. For example, think of Mexico: Father Hidalgo, a priest and a champion of the peasant classes in New Spain (Mexico), he brings all these different people together-- people who have been stepped on for too long by colonial powers, and he issues "El Grito,", which was a unified cry of the underrepresented people for independence! Together, they would finally throw off the yoke of Spanish oppression and lead their own country to INDEPENDENCE! Yaaaaaayyyyy!
Sadly, it didn't happen like that.
Yes, Father Hidalgo did issue "El Grito de Dolores," but the conditions that led to the independence movement in New Spain (and the changing of its name to Mexico) didn't hit the peasants the hardest (the peasants were already being hit pretty hard), and the Independence movement was not led by peasants, the working classes, nor the indigenous people-- even if they did spark it. In fact, some say that Father Hidalgo and the people following him didn't want independence...they just wanted a better king.
But let's save that disappointment for later.
See, when I took that class and learned what the Bourbon Reforms were, I started to understand why independence happened throughout much of Latin America in the early 19th century (1800s).
The Bourbon Reforms (and the Caroline Reforms within them) were a set of political, economic, and administrative changes that came from Spain.
Now, speaking quite generally, one of the biggest changes was one that happened gradually, then suddenly: the termination of the sale of
audiencia
positions. See, up until this point, much of Spanish Latin America operated on that old saying that I have brought up a few times, "
obedezco pero no cumplo
", which roughly translated means, "I obey but I do not comply." (you may have a better translation-- give it a shot in the forum!)
.
Discussion Question(s)The reading for this week was a grab bag o.docxduketjoy27252
Discussion Question(s)
The reading for this week was a grab bag of different perspectives on life under colonial rule, or "living in an empire." They talked about the city and the countryside, religious life and secular life, popular culture, education, and intellectual development, and so on. Which of these sections struck you as being most interesting? Which struck you as being most important for the study of colonial (and perhaps modern!) Latin America? Why?
Lecture 10
What does it mean to live in an empire?
No, that's probably not what you were thinking. Instead, were you thinking something like this?
Maybe. Star Wars, for people who might not know (I don't know what college students are into these days), looks like a simple tale of good against evil. The evil empire fighting against a scrappy band of rebels intent on overthrowing their evil masters. In a sense, this might be the way that you see colonial Latin America, too-- the evil Spanish against the good indigenous people of the Americas. I wouldn't blame you, either-- after weeks of learning about the conquest, encomiendas, the mita system (under the Spanish) and the doings of the Catholic church (especially during the conquest), it would be easy to think of the Spanish empire (or the Spanish) as evil. In fact, I don't think I am going to try and convince you otherwise.
However, it might be worth remembering that we are looking at this history right now, in 2015-- not in the period itself. Therefore, whereas today you might think of the Spanish as evil, as time passed during the colonial era in Latin America, for the poor, the castas, and yes the indigenous folks, the Spanish and the Spanish colonial system was simply a way of life. It was something that they lived with, adjusted to, and yes, even sometimes rebelled against (locally, of course, not on a large scale. That happens later).
Therefore, to stretch the Star Wars metaphor even further (yikes), I would say that even though most of you might think of Spanish colonialism like this--
-- it is more likely that it was much more like this:
In other words, we can all agree that in hindsight that colonial Latin America was oppressive, but for most people, instead of plotting rebellion in their basements or back rooms, most people just tried to find a way to survive in the middle of it all, and make the best life they could for themselves despite the horrible conditions. So we can think about how nice and pure life would have been without the invasion of the Spanish, but since that was a luxury that the poor, the castas, and the indigenous people living in colonial Latin America did not have, we might instead think about the ways in which colonial society forced adjustments upon how various groups of people lived, as the colonial empire itself expanded and became more and more complex.
Spain asserted its control through urban planning. Cities were laid out in grids, centered on the most important government buil.
The document discusses life in colonial Spanish America from the 15th to 19th centuries. It describes how Spain expanded its empire across Central and South America through conquistadors seeking trade and Christian conversion. Over centuries of colonization, the Spanish established missions to convert indigenous populations to Catholicism and instituted a complex caste system based on racial hierarchies to maintain power. Despite Crown policies, intermixing was common between Spaniards, indigenous peoples, and African slaves brought by the Spanish. The rigid social structure broke down over time as mestizo and mixed-race populations grew larger than the Spanish. Independence movements in the early 19th century led former colonies to become independent nations, politically ending Spanish rule in the Americas.
This document discusses the history and cultural influences of indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica and what is now the Southwestern United States prior to and during the Spanish colonization. It notes that the Aztecs originated from a mythical place called Aztlan, likely located somewhere in what is now the American Southwest. It also discusses the Reconquista in Spain that established the modern nations of Spain and Portugal, and how this influenced the determination of Spanish conquistadors to defeat indigenous peoples in the Americas in pursuit of land and wealth. Finally, it provides context on the African slave trade and estimates that around 200,000 African slaves were brought to Mexico as a secondary destination from Caribbean islands.
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The Darkness of Colonialism in The New World from A Short Account of The Destruction of The Indies de las casas Bartolome.
“The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.” Barack Obama.
During the Spanish invasion of the indies, there was a social reformer and historian with Spanish descent known as Bartolome who was writing at this time around the 16th century. A Short Account of The Destruction of The Indies paints the picture vividly. In addition to a commentary that was sarcastic on the brutally exercised on the Hispaniola natives by the colonizers from Spain, he also gives us the readers the reason behind the motivation of the Spain colonizers behavior. The account by Bartolome acts as a reflection of the Spanish empires imperial policies and also as an observation for the colonizer's practices. This was clearly depicted by Bartolome as it brought out the clear picture maybe because he was a Spanish historian that made most out of the writing skills he had or just maybe he was after social reform. Across the writing of The Destruction of The Indies, Bartolome brings the attention crown of the Spanish to the suffering caused and the carnages the empire citizens committed to the natives. Focusing on that Casa is able to utilize a sense of rhetoric that is aimed to bring out sympathy of the persons reading, that is aimed to the natives in addition to the sense of the horror of how the natives were treated by the Spaniards. Casa is able to paint a picture right from the beginning about the nature of the natives that is in the preface; the natives are harmless and simple according to Casa. He further depicts them as, “the simplest people in the world… without guilt or malice… never quarrelsome or belligerent and they harbor no grudges…indeed notions of revenge and hatred are quite foreign to them”.
On the opposite Casa describes Spaniards as "ravening wolves" who pounced on the natives like savage lions or tigers who had not eaten meat for several days. This depicts a clear comparison between the savagery of the Spanish empire and the natives who were helpless, where this comparison is vivid throughout the document. Comparison examples are given frequently before and after the population of the native’s levels once the Spaniards have occupied the area. In the document he states that when the Spanish set their foot on the land of the natives, the population was 3 million. Currently only 200 survived in Hispaniola or even worse not even a single person survives on the Bahamas Islands. Casa employs the use of concrete numbers to depict the population decline which directly implies the number of deaths that occurred. Casa uses this to give the document a sense of authority whereby the numbers give it a stressed official nature. These numbers also give a clear picture of the Spanish savagery and cruelty to the natives, Casa elaborates the different ways in which the locals were being cleared whit a rough idea of the col.
After looking at the different forms of labor, the shrinking populat.docxMARK547399
After looking at the different forms of labor, the shrinking population, the oppressive conditions, and even slavery, I would like you to consider whether or not the conquest is over. Have we entered into a new, much more oppressive stage of colonial development, or is the conquest simply something that continues throughout the colonial period? If it is not conquest, what would you call it? Why? Share some examples from the reading.
Post an original comment responding to the discussion question, utilizing the readings in your response. There must be at least two citations from the readings to receive credit for discussion.
This post
must be at least 200 words.
Lecture 6!
The Spanish crown brought many important institutions to the western hemisphere. We talked about them last week (the two republics, the
audiencia,
etc). Before that, we talked about the conquest itself, particularly the violence involved, how disease ravaged much of the indigenous population, and how the Spanish conquistadors used political divisions between different societies to defeat the larger empires, whether in New Spain (Mexico), New Granada, or Peru.
But after killing many natives and establishing government (with varying degrees of effectiveness, as we will see in the coming weeks), Europeans throughout Latin America began to think much more seriously about what was going to happen next. How would they settle down? How would they maintain power? How would they become rich? Well, if you are a European in the Americas during the colonial period, achieving those things would be relatively easy-- at least in comparison to any indigenous (indian) or mestizo (person of mixed race) who might want the same thing. And depending where you were settling down (Mexico? South America?) there were different resources and paths to take in order to consolidate your wealth and power.
The Encomienda System
In Mexico (New Spain), encomiendas existed very early on. In fact, Bartolome de las Casas, the noted "protector of the Indians" was himself from a family of
encomenderos.
So the system itself goes way back to the early 1500s. However, as the colonial government became established, and colonists (Criollos and Peninsulares) began looking for ways to make money, they realized that trying to get rich by stealing gold and other precious items was not going to get them there. In fact, to truly get rich, they realized that the best way to sustain their wealth was through agriculture and labor-- for which they used Indian labor.
However, on ranches and farms in Mexico, they did not use the Indians as slaves-- at least not in the technical sense. Maintaining a stable workforce was difficult in the agricultural sector if one used slaves. Most of the slaves in New Spain were in urban areas, working as servants, artisans, or other skilled positions. manumission (buying freedom) was possible, as was marriage for slaves in Spanish America. Nonetheless, most of the slaves in Spa.
What do you think was the greatest challenge for newly.docxwrite5
The greatest challenge for newly independent Latin American nations in establishing their national cultures was political instability. After independence, the nations lacked experience with democracy and constitutions. This led to a period of around 50 years of instability. Often, military leaders became political leaders due to the power vacuum, but they lacked the skills for civil leadership and governance. As a result, Latin America experienced the rise of caudillos, or strongman dictators. Establishing stable governments and democratic institutions was the biggest hurdle for these new nations in defining their cultures after independence from European rule.
Discussion Question(s)What were the colonial misgivings about m.docxduketjoy27252
Discussion Question(s)
What were the colonial misgivings about "monarchy-wide
cortes
in February of 1810 (p. 350). What do you think of the relationship between the monarchy (or the Central Junta) and the colonials in Spanish America? Do you think that the
criollos
were waiting for independence the whole time? Why or why not?
Lecture 13
Over the last two weeks, we talked about the Caroline and Bourbon Reforms in Spanish America, and I am sure that after reading Chapters 9 and 10, you feel like movements for Independence in colonial Latin America were only days away from happening (maybe only a week, since I post these on Sunday). But no!
As upset as the
criollos
might have been by the dramatic economic and political changes that occurred (not the least of which the fact that the power that they had worked for generations to gain was being taken away by
peninsulares
), the
criollos
still remained loyal to the Spanish Crown. Independence was certainly something that was whispered about in dark corners, but only by the bold, and perhaps the stupid. If we start during this era of Independence in the Americas, we
have
to start with the American Revolution--
Hey-- I'm not happy about it either (this is
Latin American History
darn it!)!
But the American Revolution was the first war for independence in the Americas, so it certainly played an important role.
Kind of.
I mean, your book is kind of right-- the French Revolution definitely played a much bigger role, but keep in mind:
1) The American Revolution was fought from around 1775 to about 1783
2) The French Revolution was fought from 1789 through the 1790s.
Just because the American Revolution was first does not mean that it had a bigger influence than the French (it did NOT). However, keep in mind that the movements for independence throughout Latin America were just as much about ideas as they were about economics-- ok, they were
almost
as much about ideas as economics-- and thus, knowing that there was a neighbor to the north that was able to shrug off colonial power certainly had a psychological effect, if not quite a political one.
The truth is, the eventual movements of independence throughout Latin America was really a combination of things, but one of the largest factors was
time--
time was needed for these ideas to sink in, and time was needed for things to totally unravel in Europe.
And it really did start with the French Revolution, and Napoleon's rise to power:
No, not that Napoleon, THIS Napoleon:
Also happening in the late 18th century (the late 1700s) was the Haitian Revolution, which, if the world wasn't turned upside down already, it definitely was by then. Check out the generally informative Powerpoint I put together about the Haitian Revolution (via your email), and connect it to your text.
Freedom was happening everywhere, and it was happening in many different ways (and in Spain, it was happening largely in the context of Napoleon's at.
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- Macy's is a large department store chain operating under various brands like Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and Bluemercury. It has over 800 stores across the US and reported $25 billion in revenues in 2017.
- Macy's has been struggling financially in recent years with declining sales and profits. It has responded by closing underperforming stores, expanding private label brands, and focusing on online and omnichannel capabilities.
- Key competitors include department stores like JC Penney and Nordstrom, mass retailers like Target, and online-only clothing retailers. Macy's is facing challenges from shifting consumer preferences toward online shopping.
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Level 2 leadership is based on relationships and influence rather than position. Leaders develop trust and positive relationships with followers by treating people as individuals with value. The focus is on getting to know people and building solid relationships rather than preserving one's position. You cannot lead people well without liking them. Positional leadership relies on rules and authority rather than influence. Positional leaders have subordinates rather than team members and rarely get extra effort from people.
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The Spanish crown brought many important institutions to the western hemisphere. We talked about them last week (the two republics, the
audiencia,
etc). Before that, we talked about the conquest itself, particularly the violence involved, how disease ravaged much of the indigenous population, and how the Spanish conquistadors used political divisions between different societies to defeat the larger empires, whether in New Spain (Mexico), New Granada, or Peru.
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Lecture 6 hello everyone. welcome back to lh 4430, history of
1. Lecture 6
Hello everyone. Welcome back to LH 4430, history of
Mexico. This week we'll be moving into the late colonial
era. Will be talking a little bit in this lecture about slavery
and Mexico that for descendants. And we'll also be talking a
little bit about some of the broader political context for
what's going on in the late colonial, colonial era. We've been
talking about the colonial era as though it were by we, I mean
me, as though it was kind of a single thing, but sort of
following some of the trends I've talked about in the takeaways
for the previous modules.It's important to remember that the
colonial era did last 300 years. Things, things did not stay the
same. And New Spain over the course of those 300 years,
right?The New Spain came about in 1530. And the first
generations after the invasion was very different from the
society that would eventually declare independence towards
1810. And so in this lecture we'll get into a little bit of change
over time. And we're going to start with the question of
slavery. Now, I'm not sure what ideas you have about
slavery, but I would imagine they're conditioned by what you've
learned about slavery here in the United States. This would be
an interesting place to, to, to chime in and the discussion for
this lecture. For instance, whether you've had the opportunity to
learn about slavery or enslavement and Latin America
elsewhere, Brazil, the Caribbean, et cetera. But I would, I
would imagine that at least here in the American context when
we think about slavery in the labor of enslaved Africans, above
all else, often we think of life in the rural south. We think of
specific crops, we think about plantations and elite planter
class. I want you to think about those things because those
are not true of all times and all places, right? So we'll be talking
about slavery and Mexico, which had certain commonalities
2. with slavery that existed elsewhere. Because of course,
slavery Involves unfree labor, right? So that's one thing that all
systems of slavery are gonna have in common.But in Mexico,
we won't generally be talking too much about rural life. We
won't be talking too much about plantations because there
were not that many of them.And they did, and they did not
result in the formation of a, of a big planter class, for instance,
like existed in the American South or in sand among part of the
Haitian Revolution. So it's useful to sort of think about trying to
unpack some of our assumptions about slavery. Because as we'll
see with a motor, with a book or reading from Ben Vinson this
week. And slave labor and then later,free block or free effort to
send that labor. Looks a little bit different in the colonial
Mexican context. But first, what does that context? So first off,
I think there's a pretty useful reminder here. It actually comes to
us from, from tray proctor that slavery in New Spain puts it
followed a fairly novel historical trajectory. When compared
with much of the Atlantic world. Demand for enslaved labor
spike between 15801640 around due to-the expansion of the
mining and sugar industries. As a result, New Spain was by the
end of the regular slave trade in 1640, home to the second
largest population of enslaved people in the new
world, surpassed only by Brazil. I've substituted some of
the terminology he uses here. So first off, the population of
enslaved Africans inNew Spain was significant, right? They
are. Increasingly scholars have talked about these, these
populations though the labor of enslaved Africans and in New
Spain.But perhaps not as much as indigenous people, Spaniards
or others. But it's important to remember that during this period,
15901640, enslaved Africans did account for about 2% of the
population of the Vice royalty of New Spain. Between
twenty thousand and forty five thousand, depending on when
you're measuring it. And that is substantial in relative
terms.Eventually this would decrease, right? So if we compare
it with the Vice royalty of Peru, for instance, in South America,
there, the population was between 1015, between 10, 15% of the
3. population was enslaved Africans during the same period. So in
absolute terms, yes, there will be a lot of enslaved Africans, but
relative terms, maybe not quite so much as other
places.However, one way, one place that New Spain, those sort
of distinguishes itself is the prevalence and the importance of
free black labor or the labor free Afro descendants, descendants
of those slaves, enslaved Africans. So if we skip ahead to
1800, on the eve of Independence, we get a, we still get people
enslaved, about 6 thousand of them. But we have 110 times as
many. Free effortless and that people living in the Vice royalty,
right? About 10% of the population is as afro descendent and
nominally free. And this, this is actually pretty consistent
across New Spain, scholars have done sort of specific regional
studies to what you get on to look at North America is to look at
Mexico City will be reading about this one, this one this
week. And that number is, is pretty consistently true, if not
higher, as was Herman Bennett, another scholar who has studied
enslaved African labor in New Spain tells us, quote, free black
labor surely surpassed slave, enslaved people and possibly
indigenous labor in terms of importance in the urban and certain
regional economies, right? You remember what I just said
about the questions of slavery in the United States? Here, in
Mexico, now orNew Spain, were not talking. We're talking
about urban areas and certain, in certain regional economies,
right?So if you're, if you're imagining plantations and the
like,hopefully this week we will try and shift your perspective a
little bit, at least for slavery in New Spain.Slave voyages.org is
a really useful Memorial and database for some of the, the trade
in enslaved people.And this gives us, this map gives us a sense
of how this looks in regional terms. So certainly the bulk of
it, it's like paper were kidnapped, forcibly transported to, to
Brazil, to certain parts of the Caribbean. And in relative
terms, not quite as many to Mexico. That is of course notto say
that they were not important over the course of the colonial
period. This is just to sort of put things in perspective now into
what kind of environment that these, did this population of, of
4. Afro descendants develop over the course of the colonial
period? As you'll remember from our last Canvas discussion, I
asked you all to talk about some of the anxieties that resulted
inthe creation and the diffusion of the cost of paintings were
like that. B's. And indeed the sort of the, the marriages across
different casts. The demographic growth of New Spain where
some of the things that influenced this, this, this anxiety about
who should, who should be doing what, broadly speaking, in
New Spain.And we will read from for Martinez again, sort of
more specifically about the sources of this, of this
anxiety.However, one of the factors that have Martinez will will
talk about briefly, but she doesn't go into too much
detail, probably because she assumes that the reader already
knows what they are, is about something calledthe Bourbon
reforms and this being history Mexico. I don't assume you know
what these are. So you'll see references to this, but basically for
a little bit of background. So when Spain first colonized what
became New Spain, the ruling dynasty back in Spain, where the
Habsburg Charles the fifth, if I remember correctly, it's King at
the time. And over the course of the next 200 years was the
house of Habsburg that would rule Spain,and by extension, New
Spain. Now if you've heard of the Hapsburgs, if they ring any
bells? Probably not good ones. The Hapsburgs were, were
known, especially towards the, towards the 17 hundreds. For the
kind of perspective that we get in the medium presented here,
right? There were certain stereotypes associated with Royal
in breeding and all sorts of propaganda. Perhaps it's the best
way to put it about what generations of supposed inbreeding had
done to the Hapsburgs. Now, was this actually literally the
case? There's some there'ssome good reasons to doubt that. But
what is true isthat the last Hapsburg to rule Spain, Charles the
second was, was not a great king, had some problems. And
especially bug without an EHR. And that's the key thing for the
bourbon. For the bourbon and forums here,Charles dies without
an EHR. That causes a problem. So if there's no air, then who is
going to be king of Spain?We've been, we've been reading a lot
5. about blood descendants, et cetera, here. And in New Spain and
early modern Spain during this period was also concerned
with these questions of succession. And in fact, after the death
of Charles the second, without an error, we get the war of
Spanish succession. What's basically different European
countries and dynasties are going to war with one another to
figure out who was going to rule Spain. Suffice it to say that the
result of this war was the ascendance of the house of
bourbon, who were, who had been known as the, the dynasty
that was ruling France. Philip the fifth is the first of the
Bourbon kings or Spain. Or it's someone who's coming from a
different dynasty, from a different national and cultural context
and will come with a lot of different ideas about how Spain and
by extension, it's Empire should be run.So Philip the fifth will
be the first. And the, so for the rest of the century, it will be
folks from the house ofBurbn that will rule Spain, an
empire. And they will begin a series of reforms to Spain and to
its empire.Over the course of the past 200 years. You know, like
how we've been focusing on the, really the kind of the nuts
and bolts of social structure and the colonies. But what's also
true is during this time, the colonies had developed a kind of
certain, not independence politically, certainly, but certain
kinds of autonomy, right? So the Crown has, as we've talked
about, actually couldn't effectively control some of the aspects
of life in the colonies, even did one or two. So towards the 17
hundreds, certain kinds of informal commerce as we might call
it, or contraband. As the Crown side, were very common in the
colonies. Different kinds of what we would now call corruption
also exist at, basically the colonies had gotten independent in
ways that the Bourbon, especially whatnot like. Why? Because
they were losing out on, on revenues but should rightly be theirs
in their eyes. So they began a series of reforms over the
course of the 17th century whose goals where as one review
here puts it, attempted to curb contraband commerce. Regain
control over Transatlantic Trade. Bureau pirates curtail the
churches power. This will become important in a second and
6. generally established, tighter political and administrative
control, right? This is also, if you sort of remember
broadly, what's going on in the 17 hundreds elsewhere in the
world. We got other empires now, English, Dutch, French, and
the Bourbon will very much be involved in that. So they will
also be competing with other empires that are also expanding
into the new world at this point as well. The Bourbon are going
to be very concerned about things like British incursions in
the, in the Caribbean, right? Piracy and the like. So what do
they actually do? These were sort of a broad goals,but what do
the burdens actually do to cause some of the effects that
Martinez will be telling us about. A couple things. So first
off, there are a series of economic reforms. So the Bourbon
King, Charles the third, You don't have to remember the names
of these kings, by the way, notice in this class, great. He, he, he
put it this way his, his priority for the colony. The goal of there
being a New Spain in the first place was to quote, bring my
royal revenues to their proper level. But probably come backto
this later in the semester. This is, this is not, you know, develop
a colony that can run itself. This is, this is not improve the
livelihoods of everyone living in the colonies, right? This is
how do I most effectively extract wealth from this colony to
enrich myself? That was sort of the logic of extraction going on
here. So those are due, take some efforts towards free
trade. Alright, so allowing limited kinds of trade with other
ports.Previously the economic policies that restricted colonial
trade to Spain. And so it's also third, will make efforts to, to
free trade. Again with the idea of generating more revenue
for, for Spain and especially the house of Burbank. By the same
token, you want to implement a series of very controversial
monopolies over production, right? So the crown will, will
legally monopolize things like the cultivation of
tobacco,alcohol, production of olive oil, salt. The effectively
visit the crown saying that no one else can produce these things
in the colonies, except unless we grant them like a royal
license. There'll be very few of these, but what that meant was
7. that sort of all the money from the licenses,all the money from
the production of these, these goods went straight to the
Crown, right, rather than staying in the colonies. Now, as you
might imagine, this is, this is going to provoke some
books write because remember over the past 200 years, certain
kinds of trade to certain kinds of production and the colonies
have gotten. I'm not quite independent, but a little bit more
autonomous than this, right? And now suddenly you have
these, you have these new king's coming in saying that you
can't,you can't plant tobacco, you can't farm tobacco. You
certainly can't sell tobacco. And if we do find it, will, will,will
destroy the tobacco crops, will confiscate them, et cetera. So
that we're going to be a lot of merchants, colonial
merchants, for instance, who are going to lose out as a result of
these economic reforms. The money that would have been going
to them is now going to the crown. They're not going to be
happy about that. By the same token, reformers, the Bourbon
reformers will seek to improve production of certain goods in
New Spain.We can see this pretty clearly in the case of
silver, this is something that Martinez will lead to
periodically. But silver production in the new world, especially
in Mexico, is going to spike. And the 17 hundreds, right? We
see the between 15-20, 11701. And we see a big spike here over
the course of the 17 hundreds. Thanks often to the results
of these bourbon reformers on there and there efforts to improve
production through various kinds of new technical
processes, right? This sort of at the, at the time the idea was
that the burdens are so bringing in allow these new
enlightenment ideals of reason and science to improve, to
improve the colonies. Of course, in the service of their own
prophet. And of course, as you might expect, if the goal is to
get as much wealth out of the colonies as possible. But you're
going to raise taxes and Suburbans do this. This is another
cause for general discontent, especially as we get towards the
wars for, for independence. So who's going to lose out on taxes,
right? Those, those wealthy merchants and a lot of the,what
8. would be the middle classes as well. At the same time, the
bargains will undertake a series of administrative and military
reforms to try and improve the defensibility of the colonies
against British pirates and the like. So recall it. During this
period, the Vice royalty of New Spain goes all the way up to
what's now California, and includes Texas, right? Talking about
a very large area. With so much area. The Hapsburgs had
developed a series of administrative positions,processes to
manage it. So there were different levels of governance
equivalent today to perhaps our states,counties, townships,
burrows, parishes, et cetera, as sort of second, third, fourth,
wobble administrated with divisions. Although Bourbon are
going to try and do away with all that and create a new series of
reforms that are really designed to centralize authority. Don't
think Martina's unit uses the term, but you may run across the
tendency system to describe this. So if you actually look at this
map, you'll see that it is broken. The Vice Royalty is now
broken up into different tendencies or, or governments that we'll
have. Attendance. This is modeled after the French
system, appointed directly by the king. That was important to
remember too. Because if you remember from our discussion of
the caste system, the Sistema de costless last time. Who were
the folks who were sort of considered most equipped to hold
high administrative positions in the colonies. Well, first the
Peninsula, right? Spaniards born in Spain. But second, the
Creoles, right? People born in the new worlds Spanish parents,
right? These were folks who, who often occupied sort of these
mid-level administrative positions similar to like or
mayors, county commissioners, town council's, that sort of
thing. And the burdens are going to just do away with a lot of
their positions, right? So suddenly they're seeing themselves
squeezed out of the political positions that they had held just
a generation or two ago. Apartments lists makes sense,
right? They were trying to centralize authority. It makes a lot
easier to collect taxes, for instance, if you appointing the guy in
charge. But in the colonies, this different kinds of folks on the
9. colonies,Creoles, Afro descendants, indigenous people too, as
we'll talk about, are finding themselves with fewer
opportunities perhaps than they had before. Of course that's not
the case for everyone. So for instance, in the,one of the things
that Americans would also do is form colonial militias try
and create something like a standing army. Then the literature, I
think, I think Vinson mentions it. And so in this clip I will get
my product right.Vinson Will mentioned this. I think briefly,
the formation of particle, one of those customer categories or
afro descendent, malicious, sorry, typo on the slide. Um, so
effectively, Afro descendants will be, will actually have access
to a kind of social mobility thanks to the possibility of being
members of these, of these militias that they perhaps would not
otherwise have had. So the Bourbon reforms will sort of
Hippo will hit different kinds of folks hard. But in so doing, it
will also create different kinds of opportunities through the
formation of institutions like these, like these parallel
militias. And if you're interested in studying thus, for instance,
for like a final paper, there's been some really good research
done on the stokes recently. If I were already assigning you
more than enough reading, I think for most folks taste every
week, I assign some literature on this very interesting stuff. But
about tangent there, but back tothe other effects of the burdens,
Administrative Reforms. One of the things they will try to do
is reform church and state relations. The sometimes go by the
name of realism. Regionalism, in this case, regal referring to the
crown. Realism effectively asserts the crowds ability to control
the church. Alright, so, so the church should not be. It should
not be above the ground,certainly not parallel with it, but under
the Crown, right?So, so to this point, as perhaps a reminder of
some of the themes that we've seen over the course of the past
couple of modules. The church actually did things like
administer marriages, right? Which Arts did things like Sponsor
educational institutions, right? The, the Jesuits were known for
their, Especially there was, there was a lot, what we would now
call administrative or state functions that were actually in the
10. hands of a church. In the hands of the church, including even
things like a cemeteries were in the hands of the church. What
the Bourbon would seek to do is sort of consistent with the
brother. Centralizing policies would try and take some of that
power away from the church and concentrate it-in the crowds
hands. And will actually, will actually read a little bit about
how this came down on marriage regulations, right? Something
that had very about special domain of the Church before. The
organs are going to have some very specific things to say about
who should be able to marry who. During this period. We will
also see sort of the famous episode during the spirit and the
expulsion of the Jesuits, right? So throughout New Spain, the
church will actually, or the crown, because the crown will
actually kick out the Jesuit orders with the Catholic
Church. And the folks who had been responsible for a much sort
of founding educational institutions and doing a lot of what we
would now call scholarly research in the colonies, right? Some
of the earliest people to look at the pre-Hispanic past in
Mexico, for instance, to try and hypothesize about the origins of
the Michigan, for instance, were Jesuits. But they were
getting maybe a little bit too powerful, a little bit too
independent for the crimes control. And actually across the
column is I hope they will just kick out the Jesuits. So the
Bourbon took these, these legalist reforms here very
seriously. So to summarize a couple of things that I think
will be useful to think about as you do your reading this
week. So generally speaking, I'm sort of, I'm trying to set up
some of the key tensions, some of the key disputes that would
eventually lead to the outbreaks of wars for independence. Now
once we get to the wars for independence, we're going to
be reading different books, right? But so it's helpful to have the
stuff going on in the background. We will continue in this
module to talk about how the System they cost us developed
into really almost full-fledged system of discrimination based
on what we would now call race.And we will talk about how
that worked often to the disadvantage, especially of Afro
11. descendants, right?Martinez will talk about how the how
indigenous blood-was considered redeemable are sort of could
reincorporated into the Spanish idea of limpieza de assign grey
and in ways that the blood of enslaved Africans and-their
descendants could not. So we're starting to see the emergence of
life. Secondly, have a system of a race, a system more or
less, that's what we would call it nowadays. Now of course, the
skipping ahead. The wars for independence and forums
that happened in the immediate aftermath of Mexico's
independence, which seek to do away with this Sistema. They
cost us, but I've spent more time than you all would like going
through it.Because it's worth considering the extent to what
some of these ideas may still influence. Contemporary Mexico
misses something we'll come back to you, but it's important, as
elsewhere to have sort of a baseline for what's going on in this
period. All right, I'm about out of time for this lecture are
slightly shorter day at least. But do let me know if you have any
questions or concerns about this, this content. And I will look
forward to reading your discussion posts here this week. So I
started on and we could say, but my cat has got to say, hi, I
syllabus. Can stop recording. Alright, have a good rest of your
week and do let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Genealogical Fictions
Limpieza de Sangre,
Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexieo
Maria Elena Martinez
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRliSS
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 2008
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Marla de JesUs Corral Corral, and Enrique Martinez Corral
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these
Ish . d . . I ' par-recor s were mcreasmg y using the formula
14. "people of reason" " "b " f 5 . d ' as In 0 pamar s and other
castes of people of reason" (bautismos
y demas castas de, de raz6n). The discourse of
lirnpleza de sangre and the colomal sistema de castas that it
inspired had
entered the Age of Reason.
CHAPTER NINE
Changing Contours
(Limpieza de Sangre' in the Age
of Reason and Reform
two decades ago, a series of paintings that are unique to
eighteenth-
rP''''",V Spanish America began to attract the attention of
students of
The which modern scholars have labeled "casta paint-
and was developed in the viceroyalty of New Spain. '
a growing metropolitan curiosity over the nature and in-
New World, Mexican artists produced the vast majority
paintings to represent the different "types" of people that sexual
«I"ioo" among Amerindians, blacks, and Spaniards had
engendered in
Americas. The main subject of the paintings, in other words,
was
population of mixed descent. The painters, a good number of
whom
were creoles,2 shared a concern with depicting how
15. reproduction among
.. the three main colonial combinations (Spanish-Indian,
Spanish-black,
and black-Indian) unfolded in the course of several generations.
To il-
lustrate this process of generational mestizaje, they relied on
multiple
panels-normally three to five for the first two units and several
more
for the third-and on the family trope. A typical series consisted
of six-
teen panels, each featuring a mother, father, and a child
(sometimes two);
an inscription providing the casta terminology for the particular
family
members; and a focus on skin color distinctions. The intended
audience
for at least some of the paintings was European, because several
of the
series were commissioned by colonial officials who intended
them as
gifts for relatives or institutions in Spain. l Casta sets were also
destined
for the Real Gabinete de Historia Natural (Royal Cabinet of
Natural
History), which Charles III founded in Madrid in 1771 in order
to dis-
play objects from different pans of the world, including
Castile's over-
seas territories. Together with minerals, fossils, rocks, flora,
and other
u8 Purity, Race, and Creolism
16. products from the Americas, various paintings were shipped
across th
a?d consumed by a Spanish public. Yet some sets stayed in
lCD, Implymg that there was a local market for them as weJI.4
With the possible exception of only one series, by Luis de
Mella, Cast
paintings situated the different colonial lineages in secular
COntext a
They also have a strong ethnographic flavor. The European
interest ,.'.
b . n ? sc.rvmg, recording, .".'hieh in the eight:cmh century
IllsplCcd a number of sCIentific expeditions to the Amcncas,
was not
new. In previous centuries, the Western ordering impulse had
led to the
"natural histories" of all sorts of things, including plants,
animals, and
humans. What became increasingly common in the eighteenth
century
was the e.mphasis on the visual, on recording difference not
only through
taxonomIC systems but also through the catalogue. 5 As a genre
that most
certainly privileges vision in the production and representation
of ethno-
graphic distinctions, casta paintings appear to be a part of the
Enlighten_
ment project. But it would be a mistake to see them simply as a
product
of that project and of European encyclopedic and taxonomic
trends more
generally. Rather, as art historian Ilona Katzew has argued,
casta paint-
17. ings were largely the result of the growing sense of creole
identity and
identification with the local. 6
They must also be understood in connection to the
socioeconomic
context in eighteenth-century central Mexico, the changing
relationship
between metropole and colony, and the discourse of Iimpieza de
san-
gre. This chapter focuses on these issues. It stresses that casta
paintings,
which emerged during a period of deepening anxieties about the
shift-
ing social order, construct a narrative of mestizaje informed by
the dis-
course of purity of blood. They also reflect some of the changes
that the
concept of limpieza de sangre had undetgone in coloni al
Mexico, most
notably its association with whiteness. The chapter emphasizes
that the
existence of multiple definitions of purity of blood, some
religious, oth-
ers more secular, helped fuel a creole patriotic defense of
Spanish-Indian
unions at a time of growing concerns about mestizaje and its
supposed
degenerating potential.
AN ICONOGRAPHY OF MESTIZAJE: PAINTINGS
AND THE INTERSECTION or RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER
At the end the seventeenth century, various Spanish arbitristas
(authors
18. of treatises on economic and fiscal reform) were convinced that
both
the Castilian state and economy were in crisis. They mainly
attributed
the country's lamentable economic situation to its failure to
develop its
Changing Contours 229
.Iu",i" and to its being reduced to exporting agricultural
products
return for manufactures. Politically, (he monarchy was weak
and
death of Charles II in 1700 plunged the country and other parts
of
into a war of succession {170I-13} between supporters of Arch-
of Austria and those of Philip of Anjou, respectively, the
!a and Bourbon contenders. By the second decade of the eight-
century, Spain had not only a new king, Philip V {1701-46}, but
a
",,' dyna",y in power. The Bourbons would devote a great deal
of time
to explain why the coumry had fallen behind other parts of
west-
and strategizing about how to strengthen the crown and the
. Their efforts would yield a series of reforms that had sweeping
in both Spain and its colonies.
The "Bourbon reforms," however, did not begin in earnest umil
af-
the middle of the eighteenth century. By then, Mexico had
already
19. undergoing important socioeconomic and cultural changes.
Demo-
ral,h.ealily the region wem from having a population of about
1.5 mil-
in 1650 to having between 2.5 and 3 million people in the early
The native population's "recovery" played an important role in
increase, as did the rapid numerical growth of people of mixed
an-
7 The demographic upsurge together with shifts in the economy,
.cludin! a rise in silver production that stimulated economic
activities
northern resulted in an expanded market for internal goods.
goods included textiles, most of which were produced in obrajes
manufactories) or domestic artisan establishments; pulque, the
Ico,holi·, beverage of pre-Hispanic origins; and tobacco, which
until
crown brought the industry under its control in 1765 was sold
by
shopkeepers and street vendors. The virtual self-sufficiency and
"",""di·ng market and productive capacity that Mexico enjoyed
in the
of the eighteenth century, not to mention the economic in-
it still had on other parts of Spanish America, made its political
economic elites confident about its future and not a little
arrogant
their capital's place in the hemisphere. The most prominent of
21. of a Mulatto, Son of a Black [Woman] and a Spaniard in Mexico
Capital of America. III The mulata is dressed in sumptuous
clothing
lOw,."pearis around her neck and wrist, a figure certainly
worthy of
"seat" of the Americas. Her male counterpart, the mulato
is likewise adorned with fancy attire, including a Spanish
and hat that rest on his left shoulder and arm. The figure looks
di-
into the eyes of the viewer as he holds a substance up to his
nose,
scent of which he is clearly appreciating. The substance is
tobacco, the
exotic import from the Americas to become a product of mass
con-
ompdon in western Europe,ll but one that Mexico produced
exclusively
internal market. Standing beside the male mulatto is a little boy
,.spi"g a wooden horse with one hand and a flag or streamer
with the
The two canvases were meant to function as a unit, thus
rendering
family triad that was to become characteristic of casta
paintings.ll
While the two Arellano representations of mulattos anticipated
casta
it was the work of the Mexico City artist Juan Rodriguez
(1675-1728) that first exhibited the principal traits of the genre.
22. "",most among these traits was a concern with depicting how
repro-
between people of different ancestries unfolds in the course of
generations. This process of ongoing mestizaje was represented
a sequence of separate images or family vignettes. Starting with
works belonging to the casta genre were produced as series,
normally consisting of separate canvases or copper plates. A
few
the different images on a single surface. Each image normally
fca-
a man, a woman, and their child. ll Some indude two children,
the standard family unit of casta paintings was a trinity. Series
were
in order to facilitate the ordering of the images.
each vignette included an inscription providing the no-
for the family members. Most casta sets, for example, begin
the representation of an elite Spanish male, an indigenous
woman
of high socioeconomic status, their offspring, and a title that
reads
f",m,,,hing like From a Spaniard and Indian [Woman] a Mestizo
Is Born
Espanal e India nace Mestizo) (fig. 5).
Casta sets are somewhat different depending on the painter and
pe-
riod in which they were produced, but they nonetheless share a
number
23. of underlying principles that produce a particular narrative of
mestizaje.
One of these principles is the idea that blood is a vehide for
transmitting
a host of physical, psychological, and moral traits. The most
explicit
series in this regard was by Jose Joaquin Mag6n, an artist from
the city
of Puebla who worked during the second half of the eighteenth
century.
One of the two casta sets that he completed indudes inscriptions
listing
the qualities that children supposedly received from one or both
parents.
FIG. 5· Jose de Ibarra, De espana/ e india. mestizo (From
Spaniard and
Indian, Me,tizo), ca. 1725. Oil on canvas, 164 x 91 cm.
SOURCE: Courtesy
of Mu,eo de America, Madrid.
Changing Contours 233
first painting, for example, starts with the message that in "the
;,.,,,i,,,, people of different colour, customs, temperaments and
lan-
are born" and then describes the mestizo born of a Spaniard and
won",,,, "generally humble, tranquil and straightforward." The
and last vignette in the unit explains that the Spanish boy, born
of
man and a castiza, "takes entirely after his father." He appar -
inherited nothing from his indigenous great-grandmother or any
24. of
ancestors. The next sequence of images begins by announcing
that
"proud nature and sharp wits of the Mulatto woman come from
White [male] and Black woman who produce her" and ends with
a
that features a child called torna atras (return backwards) and
that describes him as having "bearing, temperament and
r, "
Another idea present in casta paintings is that while mixture is a
po-
infinite process, it is not irreversible; returning to one of the
purity is possible. In particular, they allow for the possibil-
that a Spanish-Indian union can on the third generation result in
a
Spania<·d" if its descendants continue to reproduce with
persons of
descent. However, while admitting that reproduction with Span-
can also Hispanicize or whiten blacks, casta paintings as a
whole
that black blood inevitably resurfaces, that "blackness" cannot
entirely absorbed into Spanish lineages, or native ones fot that
mat-
The last generational unit of a typical series, which is
characterized
the total or ncar-total absence of Spaniards and by ongoing
reproduc-
between people of African and indigenous descent, normally
links
25. to incomprehensibility (as conveyed by terms such as "hold
r< in mid-air," "return backwards," "lobo return backwards,"
return backwards," "lobo once again," and "I don't get you")
in some cases to moral degencration.1'i
The narrative of mestizaje constructed by casta paintings also
de-
an the strong interdependence of race and gender. The first se-
Iqu"",,, of a typical set normally begins with the family of a
Spanish
and an indigenous female, and the second, with that of a
Spaniard
a black woman. Some representations of black men with
Spanish
''')me< do appear, but these are not common, and rarer stil l arc
images
of Spanish women with Amerindians.16 That in the majority of
casta sets
,the Spanish-Indian and Spanish-black unions involve Spanish
males
. not only promotes the notion that elite white men were in
command of
the sexuality of all women (thereby emasculating other men),
but con-
Struct a gendered image of New Spain's three main populations.
Sexual
subordination essentiatty functions as a metaphor for colonial
domina-
tion. However, casta paintings gender indigenous and black
people dif-
ferently. Whereas the genre links the former to biological
26. "weakness"
FIG. 6. Andres de Islas [Mexican), NO.4. De espaiio/ y negra,
nace mufata (From
Spaniard and Black, Mulatto), 1774. Oil on canvas, 75 x 54 cm.
SOURCE: Courtesy of
Museo de America, Madrid.
Changing Contours 235
it implies that their blood can be completely absorbed into
Spanish
it associates blacks with strength and thus codes them more as
casta iconography imbues them with the power, for example,
",.m,mit their qualities to their descendants.
In some of the paintings that have images of domestic violence
(Fig. 6),
is mulatto women in particular who are masculinized. These
Ii tend to feature Spaniards serving black or mulatto women or
the victims of female aggression; they thus reverse traditional
gen-
roles and figure women of African ancestry primarily as
atavistic
violent forces. J7 Not all images of African-descended people in
casta
.intin.g' are negative, but the genre's inclusion of violent black
women
absence of similar representations of indigenous women are
consis-
with its overall privileging of the family, the images
27. . are generally characterized by patriarchal domestic harmony,
rank, and a return to purity. The implication that Spanish blood
be restored when it mixes with that of native people but
corrupted
that of blacks suggests that the paintings draw on a set of
notions
generation, regeneration, and degeneration.
In a sense, the genre offers a secularized recasting of Christian
my-
not only in that the family images are obviously a product of
imagination (joseph, Mary, and Jesus; Father, Son, and
Spirit) but in that the degeneration narrative can be read as a
kind
from grace, one that always begins with the sexual act. As in
thought, "the fall" is not irrevocable; redemption is possible.
Edenic ideal, embodied in the actual body of the Spanish male,
can
into a state of "barbaric heathenism" (if his descendants can-
to reproduce with native and black people), but it can also be
re-
. Spanish (Christian) blood has redemptive power. But again,
the
"",,",i1il:, of complete redemption is admitted only for Spanish-
Indian
and not for those involving blacks. From this perspective, the
of casta paintings is not so much the castas but the Spani sh
male,
is warned that reproducing with black women can lead to the
28. loss
purity, and identity, to the corruption of his "seeds."
reveal the importance of the Spanish male within the
narrative as dramatically as the first canvas (Fig. 7) of a 1763
Cabrera It features a Spanish male [0 the
. woman [0 the right, and their daughter in the mid-
dle. l In the is a wall, and between it and the figures, a stall
with neatly arranged, luxurious Mexican textiles, indicating that
the
SCene takes place in a marketplace. The male, who stands
perfectly erect,
is turned toward the adult female. His right hand rests on his
daughter,
and with the left he points toward the indigenous woman,
displaying her
FIG. 7. Miguel [Mexi.canj, I. De espaiio/ y de india, mestiza
(From Spaniard
and Indian, Mestiza), 1763,011 on canvas, 132 x rOI em.
SOURCE; Private collection.
Changing Contours 237
the viewer of the painting. The Spaniard's face is not shown, but
his
"Slm"md hand gestures leave no doubt as to where his eyes are
fixed.
object of his gaze is the native woman, who returns the look
with
slightly raised eyebrow and somewhat flirtatious expression on
29. her
She holds her daughter by the hand and is standing in front of
the
of finely detailed textiles, as if she herself were a commodity.
The
girl, who is holding a Spanish fan and like her mother is dressed
in
iislpa"ic attire, looks at her father with an expression of
deference.
Both the positioning of the figures in relation to each arher and
body language create an idealized patriarchal order, one based
Aristarelian formulations of family and polity in which children
are
.b<"dlin,", to adults and women to men and in which the
authority
the father is linked to that of the king. The painting consi sts of
four
of vision: that of the Spanish man, which is directed at
woman; that of the latter back toward the Spaniard; that
also directed at the male figure; and that of the viewer of the
.h"i"g, whose eyes are first led to the mother and then to the
child
exoticized products from New Spain {the textiles in the back-
and the pineapple on the lower right corner of the frame}. These
,m,ii"" paradoxically position not the woman and child, which
are be-
displayed, but the Spanish male as the center of the painting.
30. Indeed,
is he who through the whole visual rhetoric of the painting-the
three
body language, the deployment of the male gaze, and the spatial
of humans and objects-is rendered as in command nar
the wealth and products of New Spain, but of the sexuality and
rep,wduction of the native female, his most valued possession.
Through its fetishized portrayal of barh the textiles and the
indige-
woman, Cabrera's painting hints at the process of creole class
for-
one fetish conceals the work that produced New Spain's
enterprises and therefore most of its wealth; the other hides
labor, dumestic and reproductive, that gave rise to a guod
number
Spanish colonial estates. The implied phallus in the painting,
the in-
through which some indigenous women were inseminated and II
which Spaniards were able in the course of a few generations
reproduce themselves, stands as a symbol of patriarchal control,
eco-
exploitation, and racial dispossession-a signifier of multiple and
overlapping structures of domination. Through the iconography
of pro-
ductive sexuality in the domestic sphere, Cabrera's casta set
thus exposes
the dynamic relationship of race, class, and gender and the
importance
of the Spanish appropriation of the labor and reproductive
31. capacity of
native women to the colonial order.
Purity, Race, and Creolism
born in (now Oaxaca), was eighteenth-century
MexICo s most promment pamter. He produced a large body of
officialJ
sponsored works featuring religious themes as well as portrait
painting;
including one of the Virgin of Guadalupe and another of the
Mexican writer Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Credited by some art
historians with taking casta paintings to their highest levels of
artis_
tic sophistication, Cabrera also was involved in introducing
important
changes into the genre. These changes include more attention to
emotion
and contact the figures, a stronger reliance on clothing
to mark socioeconomIC dtfferences, and a greater stress on
order and hi-
erarchy.2u Nonetheless, sets from the second half of the century
contin_
ued to convey the message that parents transmit a series of traits
to their
children through their blood, that after three generations the
descen_
dants of Spanish-Indian unions can return to the Spanish pole,
and that
black blood eventually stains pure lineages-ideas that were all
part of
the discourse of limpieza de sangre as it had developed in New
Spain.
32. The paintings also still generally offered a vision of Mexican
society in
which race, gender, and class intersected and in which Spanish
men's
control over female sexuality, especially over that of their own
women,
enabled the survival of colonial hierarchies. Paradoxically, the
period in
which casta paintings were produced was one in which those
hierarchies
and the very category of Spaniard were becoming highly
unstable.
TilE SISTEMA DE CASTAS IN FLUX AND
TIlE PROLIFERATION OF STATUTES AND STAINS
This instability of the sistema de castas in central Mexico was
partly
due to changes in marriage panerns and legitimacy rates. In the
capital
and Puebla, for example, marriages between Spaniards and
women of
partial African descent experienced slight but significant
increases in the
final decades of the seventeenth century. The church might have
played
a role in these increases, for it intensified its campaign to
compel couples
in informal unions to marry by threatening them with
excommunica-
tion.21 Thus, when in 1695 the Inquisition asked the bishop of
Puebla
to compile a list of the couples that had wed under those
circumstances,
it learned that during the preceding five years, twenty Spanish
33. men had
married African-descended women, free and enslavedY By the
start of
the next century, legitimacy rates among the broader casta
population
were rising, and Spanish women were taking men from other
groups as
husbands at higher rates than before. 2l Because the church had
a history
Changing Contours 239
upholding the principle of free will in choice of marriage
partners
parental wishes (a policy that the state had for most of
seventeenth century), families had no legal or Illstuutlonal
mecha-
to halt such unions, at least not yet.24
The growing instability of the sistema de castas was also due to
the
complexity of colonial society, which witnessed a dramatic
surge
the population of mixed ancestry, the beginnings of a working
class
(especially in the northern mining towns and in Mexico City
Puebla), and increasing social mobility due to the expansion of
mer-
capitalism. Mobility went in both directions, however, and eco-
trends were by no means uniform. Improvements in mining and
ogrind"",,d production and greater integration into the Atlantic
econ-
34. gave Mexico modest but steady economic growth rates. But not
followed the same trajectory, and some experienced more
than growth. In Puebla, for example, signs of economic prob-
relatively early. In 1724, a number of Puebla's residents
regarding the city's downturn and the flight of many of its af-
vecinos, namely, business owners and merchants, to Mexico
City
OaxacaY The out-migration had been so large that a section of
capital, comprised of several neighborhoods, came to be known
as
Puebla."
According to those who testified, many of the Spaniards that
remained
inPu,bla had become impoverished, and the city itself had lost
some of
charm. Previously opulent homes had fallen into disrepair; the
popu-
had dropped significantly; and many private citizens, convents,
obrajes had been unable to collect rents on their properties
(some of
in the most exdusive streets) because of the shortage of
currency
the city. Viceroy Fernando de Alencastre Norona y Silva (1711-
16),
Duke of Linares, called attention to similar problems. Puebla,
he
in a 1723 report, was blessed with good agricultural production,
35. but many of its·industries, including its wool, soap, and glass
worksho.ps,
suffering because of competition from other regions and movmg
"el,e'Nh,,,,, Only the city's craft guilds were doing well. 2f,
Economic co?-
. . in Puebla took a turn for the worse in 1736, when harvest
fatl-
l d .. Z7 ures and an epidemic that hit the central region created
a 00 cnsls.
As the viceroy suggested, during these decades of economic
problems
and fluctuations, colonial officials looked to the craft guilds as
models
- of order and regimentation. Especially strong in Mexico City
and Puebla
but also important in other cities, these bodies were in charge of
ing a good portion of the working population and thus played a
III
reproducing social hierarchies. In the capital, for example, one-
third to
Purity, Race, and Creo/ism
one-half?f working males participated in artisan crafts, which
despite
the growmg number of non-Spaniards owning their own shops
tend d
to be structured according to racial lines. 2S Even if master
artisans w.e
36. no longer all. Spaniards and creoles, and even if workers were
by
means exclusIvely people of indigenous and black ancestry the .
, "Im_
portam trad.es and obrajes were still controlted by people of
European
descent, whICh gave the semblance of order and the sense that
the sis_
de castas was alive and well. For example, the textile worksho s
III the Puebla-Tlaxcala basin, the Bajfo, and the Mexico City
area
almost all owned by Spaniards (who in the case of the first two
regio . I . I n, were mam y penmsu ars married to wealthy creole
wives), but their
workforce consisted primarily of people of mixed ancestry and
black
29 surviving hierarchical nature of certain trade occupations
mIght explam why a num?er of them are represented in casta
paintings
of the second half of the eIghteenth century. The vision of order
that the
paintings project, however, was more illusion than reality, and
this be-
came especially evident as the colonial period dtew to a close.
The instability of the sistema de castas was parodied in a 1754
man-
uscript titled "Ordenanzas del Baratillo de Mexico" ("Decrees
of the
Baratillo of Mexico"), which turned the system of classification
on its
head, poked fun at its failure to work as intended, mocked its
effort
to create institutional exclusivity on the basis of blood-putity
37. laws
and invented castalike categories based on the marking of
("one-half Spanish," "one-quarter Spanish," and so forth).3(1
Although
the manuscript correctly identified cracks in the system, the
fluidity that
it conveyed did not apply to the entire population. Social
mobility did
not really affect the upper class, which was constituted by the
owners of
large estates and mines, wholesale merchants, high-ranking
royal offi-
cials and clerics, and large-scale retailers; nor did it apply to
the bottom
social levels, which mainly consisted of unskilled indigenous
manual lab-
orers. Fluidity …
Black Mexico
TimesRace
University of New Mexico Press r Albuquerque
Edited by
BEN VINSON III
and
MATTHEW RESTALL
Colonial to Modernandsociety from
39. BEN VINSON III
96
From
■J- ON APRIL 18, 1793, MEXICAN MILITARY INSPECTOR
DON BENITO
Perez drafted a lengthy letter to the viceroy detailing the state
of affairs
among the free-colored communities and militiamen that he had
spent
several months reviewing. Contained within the pages of his
report were
opinions that were probably consistent with the views of many
elites of
the time. In his estimation, the colony’s interior was crowded
with unem
ployed blacks who congregated on the outskirts of major urban
areas such
as Mexico City. He wrote that the best way of dealing with this
poten
tially troublesome lot was to be zealous in charging tribute,
which would
have the effect of pushing blacks to the coasts as they sought to
evade the
heavy burden of unwanted taxation.1 On the one hand Perez’s
comments
revealed an interesting understanding of the black predicament:
the quite
sizeable free black population found itself struggling to survive
financially
40. in freedom. Any efforts to circumscribe their freedom even
more (in this
case, through exacting straining financial demands) produced
visceral
reactions. Black populations would move in order to defend
their liberty.
But while Perez’s letter offered some astute understandings of
colonial
Dawn til Dusk
Black Labor in Late Colonial Mexico
From Dawn 'til Dusk 91
black life, they were also a bit misguided. He ignored some of
the com
plex realities of black life with which even he must have been
quite famil
iar. The colonial archives are filled with evidence of gainful
black labor
and enterprise. Indeed, urban blacks in particular were probably
found
employed more often than not.
However, as evidenced in Perez’s dispatch, it was easy for free
coloreds
to be misunderstood by their society. Even when they worked a
trade,
sometimes for the government itself, innocent and industrious
activity
could be egregiously mistaken for criminality and deviancy. In
October
of 1785, Leberina Azevedo, the wife of Vicente Medina, wrote
an impas
41. sioned letter to the viceroy begging that her husband, a free-
colored mili
tiaman, not be incarcerated and shipped to Puerto Rico for being
found on
the streets of Mexico City carrying sharp scissors. He was not a
vagabond
toting an illegal weapon she pleaded, but a hired employee of
the Royal
tobacco factory where he had responsibilities in the cigar-
making indus
try. He had been found simply carrying a tool of his trade.2
Similarly, at 8:00 p.m. on the night of July 20, 1789, Lucio
Antonio
Rodriguez (another black soldier) was apprehended on the
streets of Mex
ico City for carrying a knife. According to his testimony, he had
recently
gotten off work from the Royal custom’s house where he held a
job as
an artisan. Like Medina, his knife was his occupational tool,
and he had
been using it that evening to cut wineskins and boots at the
house of don
Juan Maranon. Rather than being caught committing a crime, he
had been
apprehended while innocently going about his daily business.
After sev
eral rounds of testimony lasting for over a year, proof of his
impeccable
character and service record were provided and all charges were
cleared.
However, until then, he had to endure the humiliation of being
dragged
through the courts.3 In a world where stereotypes and laws
inhibiting the
42. black population lingered, distortions regarding black laborers
and black
employment persisted.
From the standpoint of scholars, labor has been one of the great
top
ics of study regarding black life in the colonial Americas. In
many ways,
research on slavery has captivated and monopolized historical
scholarship,
yielding tremendously important results that have greatly
improved our
understanding of the colonial and modern worlds. We now know
more
about how slavery contributed to the development of capitalism,
global
economies, world systems, Western notions of modernity, and
colonial/
metropolitan relationships. We have sharper understandings of
how slavery
98 BEN VINSON III
contributed to the structuring of social hierarchies and racial
systems, as
well as how it impacted independence movements and the
mundane opera
tion of everyday politics."* But while slavery certainly
occupied a founda
tional and prominent role in the colonial black experience, it is
important
to remember that it was only a part of black life. Particularly in
the Latin
American context, free coloreds such as Vicente Medina and
43. Lucio Antonio
Rodriguez, comprised a substantial workforce that also strongly
influenced
broader social, political, and economic processes.* Their
activities in places
such as Brazil, Venezuela, and Cuba are well known but, in
other colo
nial contexts, such as Mexico, Bolivia, and Guatemala, their
worlds are
less understood. At least for Mexico, this is not necessarily due
to scholarly
neglect. Over the past several decades, a number of important
studies have
been produced that have either featured free coloreds, or have
included
them in broader analyses of regional and local economies.6
However,
few attempts at achieving a general synthesis of free-colored
labor have
been achieved.
This chapter is an initial attempt at expanding our knowledge of
free-
black Mexican labor, especially for the late eighteenth century.
There may
have been fewmoments in Mexican history that present better
circumstances
for evaluating free-colored labor. The 1790s marked the eve
ofindependence
and the close of the colonial era. If, as some have argued, the
eighteenth
century was a period of general prosperity in Mexico, where
greater social
mobility for blacks was possible due to a weakening caste
system, a stron
ger class system, and greater racial hybridity, then these years
44. offer one of
the richest opportunities to take the pulse of Afro-Mexican
socioeconomic
progress. Second, the production of an extraordinary colony-
wide census,
commissioned by viceroy Revillagigedo between 1790 and
1793, provides
an unparalleled opportunity to examine free-colored
occupational habits.
Since the census was raised to identify potential recruits for
military duty,
detailed information on women (including their professions)
was largely
excluded, as was data on the native population. Nonetheless,
combined with
other sources, such as parish registers and tribute data, the late
colonial
period is one for which we may be able to know the Afro-
Mexican popula
tion intimately.
It is important to stress that for Afro-Mexicans, the eighteenth
cen
tury was in many ways a mulato and pardo century and that, at
some level,
blackness and the black experience should be evaluated on these
terms. As
a colony, Mexico experienced tremendous demographic growth,
nearly
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doubling in size from four to seven million inhabitants between
the 1650s
45. and the late 1700s. The Afro-Mexican population grew, too,
more than
tripling from roughly 116,000 in the 1640s to almost 370,000 by
the
1790s.7 But with the decline of the slave trade after the 1640s,
much of the
expansion of the Afro-Mexican population came not through
substantial
increases in the shipment of new slaves, or by large measures of
endoga
mous natural growth among free blacks (negros), but rather
through the
miscegenation of existing slaves and free blacks with mestizos,
whites,
natives and other groups.8 By the 1790s, the Revillagigedo
census only
identified a scant five hundred morenos, or “pure blacks,”
throughout New
Spain, along with another 6,100 black “Africans.”9
Apart from being a mulatto century, one might also argue that
the
1700s were an era of Afro-Mexican success. Using the lens of
“success”
to discuss the black experience offers an important alternative
to some
traditional models of studying black life. Particularly in Latin
American
contexts, life after slavery is often processed within the
framework of
assimilation and mestizaje. Interpreting life after slavery
through the
“success” lens opens new opportunities for engaging blacks on
different
terms, notably ones that compel us to measure free-colored
populations
46. in light of their respective societies and that demand us to
reckon with
blacks as a group struggling for their own internal cultural,
political, and
social cohesion.
Two potential barometers for measuring black success rest in
com
paring the economic livelihood of blacks in the 1700s against
benchmarks
from the previous two centuries, as well as against the
conditions of black
life in the greater Atlantic world. In simplest form, an argument
can be
made that because so many of Mexico’s blacks were free in the
eighteenth
century, their liberty should be celebrated over the more
pervasive slavery
that governed a great deal of New Spain’s black life from the
1500s into the
1600s, and that shackled so much of the black population in
slave regimes
throughout the French and British Caribbean in the 1700s. Some
might
also be persuaded to argue that the very prevalence of black
freedom in
New Spain during the eighteenth century partially compensated
for the
many misfortunes that some blacks encountered when they took
marginal
and menial positions.
Of course, this vision of eighteenth-century black success in
New Spain
comes with some caveats. While most Afro-Mexicans were
indeed free dur
47. ing the 1700s, the truth is that slavery persisted as an institution
until 1829.
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In the years preceding emancipation, anywhere from three
thousand to ten
thousand slaves worked in a range of professions including
mining, textiles,
and sugar cultivation. Some of the regions where slaves
continued working
included the cane fields of Cordoba, the developing frontier
areas of north
ern Alexico (Sonora, Durango, and Sinaloa), the textile center
of Queretaro,
as well as select coastal regions including Tamiahua and
Acapulco. As strict
trade controls and monopolies were removed from ports
throughout Mexico
in the eighteenth century, a small, renewed slave trade appeared
in tropical
regions like Tabasco. Essentially, what these factors mean is
that any dis
cussion of eighteenth-century Afro-Alexican success must be
situated in a
context in which slavery continued to exist, even if only on a
small scale. In
some of the locations where slavery remained visible, the
cultural impact of
the system may have borne implications upon free-colored
social relation
ships, as well as their prospects for advancement in society.
The meaning of free-colored economic progress must also be
48. situ
ated in a society characterized by great inequality. In broad
measure, the
eighteenth century was generally one of economic growth for
Mexico on
the whole. The colony ranked first among the world’s silver
producers and
mining triggered the development of a variety of industries,
includi ng agri
cultural, ceramic, and textile production. Yet at the same time,
the story
of Mexican economic progress was greatly disjointed. Equal
opportunities
were not available for all, and while more millionaires were
created in New
Spain than anywhere else in the Spanish empire, the Alexican
working
masses saw a 25 percent drop in real earnings during the last
half of the
eighteenth century, thanks in part to inflation, crop failures, and
epidem
ics. While some free coloreds were absorbed into the middle
class, others
who occupied the lowest strata of the economy were exposed to
extreme
income volatility, squalid poverty, and exploitation by a
supremely power
ful elite class. Was this a fate better than slavery? Indeed, was
this success?
Arguably yes, arguably no. However, such observations only
seem to beg
the question: to what degree should black success be measured
against the
benchmark of slavery or against the material opportunities and
livelihoods
of others who were free?10
49. The following sections, essentially a series of economic
narratives, do
not pretend to fully answer the questions raised here, but they
help pro
vide a context for resolving them. By providing a broad
understanding of
the general contours of free-colored economic life, and
highlighting the
roles that blacks played in specific local and regional
economies, we can
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arrive at a better grasp of how free coloreds lived, articulated,
and defined
their freedom, as well as how they translated it into
opportunities that
intersected with the most powerful forces of the colonial
economy.
Colonial Snapshots:
A Portrait of New Spain's Free-Colored Labor Scene
Throughout the second half of the eighteenth century and up
until the
outbreak of the wars for independence, Afro-Mexicans
comprised roughly
io percent of New Spain’s population.” Table 5.1 provides
occupational
information on 11,730 free coloreds (mainly males) who came
from twenty
different provinces, districts, and urban centers throughout the
viceroy
50. alty (see Maps 5.1 and 5.2). Combined, these regions housed
approximately
64,000 free coloreds, or roughly 17 percent of the nearly
370,000 Afro-
Mexicans who lived in Mexico during the 1790s.”
In a predominantly agricultural society, it should not surprise us
that
agriculture was the largest arena of work for free coloreds.13
Entire prov
inces, such as Igualapa, Guazacoalcos (Acayucan), and Tampico
housed
scores of labradores (farmers) and baqueros (cowboys), almost
to the near
exclusion of other professions. Indeed, the labrador may have
been the
most common black male occupation in colonial Mexico. Using
census
records alone, it is hard to distinguish among the labradores and
baqueros
who owned their own plots or flocks, and those who were
sharecroppers,
hacienda laborers, and ranch hands.14 Of those who worked as
employees
on the larger estates, differences in salary existed between
seasonal work
ers and year-round hacienda residents. While seasonal workers
could gen
erally benefit from high wages paid during harvest seasons, they
did not
always have access to adequate housing and their employment
was irregu
lar throughout the year. Meanwhile, laborers who lived
permanently on
an estate might have enjoyed better lodging facilities and more
continual
51. employment, yet at the same time they could incur greater debts
there,
where they also typically bought their goods and wares. All of
the earnings
of agriculturalists and ranchers were further subjected to market
forces.
Fluctuations in product value and levels of occupational
experience also
affected wage differentials?5
Some of the free-colored agricultural workforce was mobile. As
evi
denced in regions such as the Pacific coast as early as the
sixteenth century,
black populations both enslaved and free, moved from estate to
estate, or
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5.1. Free-Colored Labor in Late Colonial Mexico, 1780—
1794TABLE
Economic Sector
982 8.4
17 .1
6,160 52.5
Number of
Workers
170
53. .1
1.0
.7
Percentage of
Workforce (%)
9.5
1.1
2.2
Source: AGN, Padrones, vols. 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 35, and
37; AGN, I.G., vol. 53-A;
I.G., vol. 416-A, Acayucan, 1795, Biblioteca Nacional de
Antropologia y Historia (BNAH)
Archivo Judicial de Puebla, rollos 43-44, Tributes Expediente
formado en virtud de las
diligencias hechas por los alcaldes ordinarios al gobernador
intendente Don Manuel
de Flon, Puebla, 1795; Archivo Historico de la Ciudad de
Mexico (AHCM), Ciudad de
Mexico, vol. 1; Juan Andrade Torres, El comercio de esclavos
en la provincia de Tabasco (Siglos
XV1-XIX) (Villahermosa, Mexico: Universidad Juarez
Autonoma de Tabasco, 1994),
60-61; Jorge Amos Martinez Ayala, Epa! Epa! Toro Prieto, Toro
Prieto (Morelia: Institute
Michaocano de Cultura, 2001), 67-69; Bruce Castleman, “Social
Climbers in a Colonial
Mexican City: Individual Mobility within the Sistema de Castas
in Orizaba, 1777-1791,”
54. Colonial Latin American Review (CLAR) 10, no. 2 (2001): 242-
44; David A. Brading,
“Grupos etnicos: Clases y estructura ocupacional en Guanajuato
(1792),” in Historiay
poblacidn en Mexico (Siglos XVI-XIX), ed. Thomas Calvo, 256
(Mexico City: El Colegio
Transport and services
Construction
Metal, wood, pottery
Textiles, dress, shoes,
leatherworking
Arts and entertainment
Food and drink
Commerce
Administrative,
professional,
church, military
Agricultural, fishing,
and pastoral
Tobacco
Mining and refining
Mill workers3
Other industry13
Other
55. Unknown
Total
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de Mexico, 1994); Wu, “The Population of the City of
Queretaro in 1791 f Journal of Latin
American Studies 16, no. 2 (1984): 293; Guillermina del Valle
Pavon, “Transformaciones de
la poblacion afromestiza de Orizaba segun los padrones de 1777
y 1791,” in Pardos, niulatos
y libertos, Sexto encuentro de Afromexianistas, 88-93 (Xalapa:
Universidad Veracruzana,
2001); and Juan Carlos Reyes G., “Negros y afromestizos en
Colima, siglos XVI-XIX,” in
Prcsencia africana en Mexico, ed. Luz Maria Montiel Martinez,
301 (Mexico City: Consejo
Nacional para la Cultura y Artes, 1993).
Note: The study includes seven cities (Guanajuato, Valladolid,
Queretaro. Orizaba,
Mexico City, Puebla, and Oaxaca), and thirteen
provinces/districts (Acayucan. Tabasco,
Guamelula, Tixtla, Acapulco, Tlapa, Chilapa, Motines,
Tampico, Colima, Igualapa,
Sanjuan del Rio, and Irapuato).
3 These workers were all in the mining industry.
11 Includes thirty-eight workers in the sugar industry, some of
whom were agriculturalists.
from village to village in search of better livelihoods.1*5 In
56. some instances,
black residential and occupational mobility even helped anchor
the devel
opment of certain townships, such as the village of Tonameca
located in
the Pacific province of Guamelula (see Map 5.1).17 By the
second half of
the eighteenth century, this town had come to possess the
highest popula
tion density of blacks in the district. Although market forces did
produce
important moments of opportunity that helped push and attract
black
agriculturalists to various parts of the colony, not everyone
heeded the
logic of the market. In the second half of the eighteenth century,
as cotton
and sugar production reinvigorated the Pacific basin’s economy,
causing
some free coloreds to move onto or near estates in areas such as
Zacatula
(see Map 5.1), others opted not to leave their homes or change
their long
established lifeways. In the province of Igualapa, also in the
Pacific basin,
as some blacks moved to take advantage of special economic
opportuni
ties, others solidified their roots in the orbit of the great estates,
forming
a number of black settlements in the Costa Chica whose cultural
legacies
remain felt even today.’8
New Spain’s black agricultural and pastoral workers included a
num
ber of individuals categorized as sirvientes (servants) and
57. operarios (work
ers) who labored on estates, small farms, and ranches. It was
generally
understood that many “servants” in rural areas did not always
perform
domestic labor, but also worked in the agricultural and ranching
profes
sions as assistants, peons, and farmhands. Their servant status
probably
signaled a lower position within the labor hierarchy. A few rural
servants
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were more specifically categorized as sirvientes de trapiches,
meaning that
they worked on sugar cane mills. Operarios, meanwhile,
typically referred
to unskilled industrial workers and manufacturers, particularly
in urban
settings. But in the rural world of New Spain, many operarios
worked on
plantations, haciendas, and cotton estates—sometimes as
machinists, but
not necessarily. This intriguing group of all-purpose black
laborers prob
ably resembled the indiscriminate category of rural
“trabajadores" (work
ers) found in regions like Tabasco.’9
After the agricultural and pastoral professions, the second
largest
employment arena for the free coloreds surveyed in this sample
was min
ing (see Table 5.1).20 It is almost certain that as future research
allows us to
acquire more data on New Spain’s free-colored labor force,
mining’s role
will diminish within the hierarchy of eighteenth-century Afro-
Mexican
professions. As with the labradores and baqueros, the
particularities of the
census make it hard to distinguish among miners. The category
61. included
refiners, pick and blast men (who extracted ore from its
deposit), whim
minders (who hoisted ore from shafts), smelters, amalgamators,
foremen,
and peons alike. Needless to say, the skill level and pay scale of
these
workers varied tremendously. Virtually all of the mining jobs in
the data
sample were located in Guanajuato, the premier silver center of
the late
colonial empire. In the 1790s, Guanajuato had a large black
labor force,
much of which was born in the city or its surrounding province,
and that
had ancestral roots stemming back into the sixteenth and
seventeenth
centuries.21 Despite the presence of black miners in other areas
of the
colony, such as Taxco and Sultepec, it is unlikely that any
mining cen
ter in the eighteenth century came close to matching
Guanajuato’s black
workforce. Consequently, the total number of blacks in the
Mexican min
ing industry must have assuredly been overtaken by other
sectors of free-
colored employment.
Among these were the transport and service industries, which
included
porters, water carriers, muleteers, domestics, cooks, servants,
laundresses,
and coachmen (see Table 5.1). If complete employment
information was
available for women, we would also find more wet nurses,
62. nannies, house
keepers, and attendants.22 One surprise is that muleteers
(arrieros), who
have long been perceived as a niche profession for blacks, were
relatively
few among employed free-colored males in the transport
industry. Their
strongest representation came in the colony’s western highland
regions
(Tixtla, Tlapa, and Chilapa) and in Guanajuato, which possessed
over 250
io6 BEN VINSON III
black arrieros. Elsewhere, and especially in the major regional
market cities
of Puebla, Oaxaca, Valladolid, and Orizaba, muleteers were
almost absent.
What this suggests is that except for a few instances, many free-
colored
muleteers tended to live in smaller towns along major
thoroughfares that
tied together the colony’s primary markets.2* Another trend,
more notice
able in the Pacific highlands than elsewhere, was evidence for
the employ
ment of free coloreds as muleteers’ assistants de arrieros).
These
workers were mainly responsible for helping pack and feed the
animals,
while also assisting with driving mule trains from various
mountainous
passageways down to the colony’s coastal and heartland zones
63. Artisans in the textile, dress, leatherworking, and shoemaking
indus
tries competed fiercely with the service and transport sector for
third
place within the free-colored occupational hierarchy (see Table
5.1). These
professions included tailors, seamstresses, cobblers, textile mill
workers,
hatters, cloth cutters, needle makers, spinners, tanners, weavers,
and rib
bon makers, among others. Some of these trades, such as cloth
cutters
involved minimal expertise and were mainly considered to be
manufac
turing professions. Others demanded superior craftsmanship and
even
guild membership. During the colonial period, and especially
during the
eighteenth century, free coloreds were known to have access to
the upper
ranks of several guilds and many emerged as examined masters
in their
trades. However, in the census documents examined here, not a
single
free-colored master artisan was found among the 11,000-plus
laborers.2*
When combined with workers in the metal, woodworking, and
pot
tery sector, as well as candlemakers, wax producers, and cigar
makers,
the total population of free-colored artisans actually
outnumbered those
employed in the service and transport industries. Of course, the
lack of
information on women complicates matters.2* Like their male
64. counter
parts, free-colored women were also employed as artisans, with
perhaps
their heaviest representation coming in the textile industry.
There were
probably significant numbers of black female confectioners and
tobacco
factory workers as well. All of this begs the question: what was
the likely
impact of females on the overall free-colored workforce? It is
hard to say
with certainty, but it is highly probable that the number of
female artisans
never overtook the number of female service workers.26
Consequently,
women most likely affected the free-colored labor force by
substantially
increasing the representation of service and textile workers in
the labor
hierarchy. Moreover, it is likely that female representation
increased the
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A Tale of Four Cities: Free-Colored Big City Labor
No single colony in the Spanish empire had two urban centers
that rivaled
the size of Mexico City and Puebla in the late eighteenth
century and,
quite possibly, few could boast the economic diversity and
complexity of
Mexico’s four largest metropolises, including Guanajuato and
Queretaro
(see Map 5.2). All dominated the political and economic
65. landscapes of their
regions by buying goods and supplying manufactured wares,
furnishing
credit for business ventures, as well as administeri ng the greater
affairs
of governance, justice, and military order. Collectively, these
centers also
offered opportunities that were simply unavailable in smaller
towns and
the rural countryside. Whereas one might be hard pressed to
find a sil
versmith, painter, or teacher in less populated zones, in New
Spain’s first-
order cities, such professions were more commonplace.
Similarly, whereas
only a handful of occupational options existed in smaller towns,
in places
like Mexico City there were well over six hundred different
professions
available between 1790 and 1842.28 Of course, the industrial
and service
functions of most cities meant that artisans and unskilled
laborers com
prised the lifeblood of urban economies. In a typical Latin
American
metropolis anywhere between 20 and 40 percent of the
population worked
as artisans, while another 30 to 40 percent were unskilled
laborers?9 As
might be expected, the status of these professions varied widely,
and argu
ments can be made that the social position of many artisans did
not match
their actual worth in the economy?0
By and large, free coloreds found themselves navigating the
66. colonial
urban world of honor, position, and status by maximizing and
exploit
ing whatever opportunities (big and small) their professions
allowed. As
a general rule, free blacks found some of their best access to
jobs in the
focal industries of the larger metropolises, in part because of
the cities’
overwhelming need to furnish workers in these trades. These
professions.
variety of trades to be found in the services, while raising the
number of
workers in both the food industry and petty commerce—women
worked
as waitresses, tortilla makers, street peddlers (selling stockings
and combs),
fruit vendors, and druggists, among other positions?7 With
female help,
the service industry probably surfaced as the second most
important free-
colored occupational arena (over mining), followed by the
textile-related
craft trades.
io8 BEN VINSON III
in turn, linked free coloreds professionally to large swathes of
the urban …