Acknowledgments
Introduction
Lissette Acosta Corniel
1. Spanish Slave Legislation: From Slavery to Abolition in Spain and the Americas
Aurelia Martín Casares
2. Legislation and Slavery from a Local Perspective: Slaves in the Municipal Ordinances of Extremadura, 1500-1800
Rocío Periáñez Gómez
3. Slavery and the Pursuit of Freedom in Sixteenth-Century Santo Domingo
Richard Lee Turits
4. African Slavery and Laws in La Española: The Beginnings of Modern Colonization in the Americas (1520s-1540s)
Anthony R. Stevens-Acevedo
5. Black Women in Sixteenth-Century Santo Domingo: Free, Enslaved, Founders, and Explorers
Lissette Acosta Corniel
6. Transgressing Social, Gender, and Sexual Norms in Colonial Santo Domingo (1716-1719)
Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco
7. Fostering a Sense of Community in Seventeenth-Century Puerto Rico: The Godparenthood of Enslaved Infants, Children, and Adults in San Juan, 1672-1706
David M. Stark
8. A Tradition of Contraband: Secreting and Silencing the Illegal Importation and Exploitation of Enslaved Africans in Spanish Colonial Puerto Rico
Jorge L. Chinea
Contributors
Index

Lissette Acosta Corniel is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies in the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, the City University of New York.