Portuguese Encomenderos de Negros and the Slave Trade within Mexico, 1600–1675

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Puebla De Los Angeles

This article focuses on local slaving agents, encomenderos de negros, during the first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on notarial documents, Inquisition cases and investigations on contraband and tax evasion, the study explains how Portuguese intermediaries sold and distributed African captives in colonial Mexico between 1616 and 1639. The ability to extend credit was key to the success of these agents-on-commission. The article also explains why agents of the Grillo and Lomelín slaving monopoly (asiento) failed to replicate the success of their Lusophone predecessors in Nueva Veracruz, Mexico City and Puebla de los Ángeles in the 1660s and 1670s.

La Entrada Angelopolitana: Ritual and Myth in the Viceregal Entry in Puebla de Los Angeles

1996 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy H. Fee
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Puebla De Los Angeles ◽  
Hernan Cortes ◽  
The City

The celebration of the entry of the viceroy was the most lavish, costly civic ritual in seventeenth-century Puebla de los Angeles. Staged by Puebla elites to honor the viceroy, this ritual event was orchestrated to assert and display the religiosity and superiority of Angelópolis (the literary title for Puebla). Invoking the journey of Hernán Cortés, the routing of the viceregal entry through Puebla prior to Mexico City heightened the competitive spirit of the Puebla Cabildo. The Puebla Cathedral, erected on the main plaza largely under the influence of Bishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza from 1640-49, functioned as the centerpiece and scenographie backdrop of this civic spectacle. Ephemeral, triumphal arches featuring allegorical, political emblems framed and gated the ritual entry. Designed by members of the oldest builders’ guild in New Spain, some of these arches were placed within the main portal of the Cathedral marking its role as the sanctum sanctorum of the city.

Negro Slaves in Early Colonial Mexico

1969 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Boyd-Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Physical Condition ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Pure Gold ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
Puebla De Los Angeles

I the widow Catalina Vélez Rascón do hereby promise to pay to you, Diego de Villanueva, alderman of this City of los Angeles, 1,100 pesos of pure gold … for six slaves (piezas de esclavos), to wit: the Negro Lorenzo, ladino, born on the Island of Tercera (in the Azores), his wife Antonia, Negress, born in Biáfara, with a young mulatto daughter of hers named María, plus a Negro called Manuel, born in Zapa, and a Negress Catalina, born in Portugal, with a young Negro daughter of hers named Paula, making six slaves in all, all of whom were disposed of in public auction as part of the estate of Francisco Muñoz, deceased, in two lots, and were sold to my son-in-law Don Juan de Zúñiga, bidding on my behalf. … Given in this city of los Angeles on the 16th day of July in the year of the birth of Our Savior Jesus Christ 1554.The notarial archive of the Mexican city of Puebla de los Angeles, virtually complete from 1540 on, is a treasure-house of information about social and economic life in the early colony. Many of its earliest documents are, however, in deplorable physical condition, unindexed and chronologically unorganized, which makes them extremely difficult and time-consuming to consult. In order to remedy this condition and make the archive more accessible to scholars both in Mexico and elsewhere, I have indexed and extracted from microfilm the substance of over 1,600 documents executed between 1540 and 1555. These will probably appear in a two-volume collection published by the Editorial Jus in Mexico City. The documents make fascinating reading. There are wills, dowries, contracts, law-suits, partnerships, promissory notes, rentals, powers of attorney, as well as bills of sale itemizing every imaginable kind of property from real estate to livestock to produce to general merchandise.

Playing Cards at the Eucharistic Table: Music, Theology, and Society in a Corpus Christi Villancico from Colonial Mexico, 1628

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew A. Cashner
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social History ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Liturgical Music ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
The Social ◽  
Puebla De Los Angeles ◽  
Spanish Colonies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Devil

As part of the festivities of Corpus Christi in 1628, a cathedral choir in colonial Mexico sang about the Eucharist through the metaphor of a card game. This music is a previously unstudied, fragmentary villancico, composed by Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla for the cathedral of Puebla de los Ángeles, and it opens a window into the social history of card-playing and gambling in the Spanish colonies. It stems from a broader tradition of “divinizing” cards, including poetry and drama by Lope de Vega and González de Eslava. The article explores the theological and social implications of using liturgical music to present Christ as a rogue card player, winning humanity back from the devil by laying down the trump card of his own body on the table. Includes an edition of the surviving music. The online version includes a recording played on the organ by the author.

scholarly journals Fruto, cruz y árbol de vida : diseño castellano de un reino de Sobrarbe

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Botella Ordinas
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
The Past ◽  
Puebla De Los Angeles

En el siglo xvii se produjeron manifestaciones sobre Sobrarbe a las que se les ha dado un significado monolítico. Tras el análisis de los textos que forman parte de un proceso desde 1649 fiasta 1652 entre la Audiencia de México y el Cabildo de la catedral de Puebla de los Ángeles, podemos observar cómo surgen otros significados sobre un reino de Sobrarbe. Uno de ellos se incluía en el pasado de la Monarquía Católica.In the seventeenth century some manifestations about Sobrarbe can be found, to which have been given a monolithic meaning. After the analysis of the texts included in a lawsuit from 1649 to 1652 between the Hight Court of México and the cathedral's Chapter of Puebla de Los Ángeles, we are able to notice how other meanings about one kingdom of Sobrarbe appeared. One of this was involved in the past of Catholic Monarchy.

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