Sherwin K Bryant: 1 book
Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage
Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
In this pioneering study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia--Spain's Kingdom of Quito--Sherwin Bryant argues that the most fundamental dimension of slavery was governance and the extension of imperial power. Bryant shows that enslaved black captives were foundational to sixteenth-century...
