Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-fv566 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-20T22:29:16.585Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

6 - The Other Market

Commerce and Opportunity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 April 2018

Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
Affiliation:
University of Rochester, New York
Get access

Summary

Chapter 6 returns to a spatial focus on slavery by highlighting the opportunities found in the marketplace. It also addresses the second-hand market or baratillo, as a space for afro-indigenous interaction. The chapter focuses on three families: the Terranovas, the Monsón de la Cruz and the Pardave Cabreras. In the first case María de Terranova, an African woman, became her former master's principal foe by selling fish in the marketplace and contesting his attempts to rescind her freedom papers. The second case examines the potential of afro-indigenous interactions through the testaments of Felipe Monsón y Mojica and his indigenous wife, Juana María de la Cruz. The couple managed to become urban patrons in Puebla through their control of chile peppers and other agricultural products. The third case centers on the Pardave Cabrera family and the strategic commercial and marital choices made by male members of the family. In the particular case of Marcos de Pardave, we learn of a thriving trade in indigenous clothing imported from Oaxaca and Chiapas. Both Pardave and Monsón also illustrate former slaves' ability to enter and profit from service in Puebla's free-colored militias.
Type
Chapter
Information
Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico
Puebla de los Ángeles, 1531–1706
, pp. 177 - 199
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

  • The Other Market
  • Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva, University of Rochester, New York
  • Book: Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico
  • Online publication: 03 April 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108304245.007
Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

  • The Other Market
  • Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva, University of Rochester, New York
  • Book: Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico
  • Online publication: 03 April 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108304245.007
Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

  • The Other Market
  • Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva, University of Rochester, New York
  • Book: Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico
  • Online publication: 03 April 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108304245.007
Available formats
×