3 From Isolation to Inclusion: Confraternities in Colonial Mexico City

2017 ◽  
pp. 68-87
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Colonial Mexico

scholarly journals Life Patterns and Social Differentiation in Late Colonial México City

1991 ◽  
Vol 11 (011) ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Kicza
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Life Patterns ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Regional Centers

Mexico City, in the fifty years between 1770 and 1820 was far and away the largest urban entity in the Americas, with a population ranging between about 80000 and 120000 peop1e in this period. As a center of both production and consumption and the headquarters of the numerous agencies in the political and religious hierarchies, the capital had a major impact on the social organization and economic activities of rural areas and regional centers throughout the colony of New Spain. In its capacity as a mercantile entrepôt of the most prosperous colony in the Spanish empire at this time, Mexico City's reach extended across half the globe, with its merchants directing operations and interchanges from at least Manila -and by extension China- to Spain -and by extension England.

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.

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