Colin A. Palmer. Slaves of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 1570-1650. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. In the introduction to Slaves of the White God, Colin A. Palmer noted that his research on blacks in colonial Mexico was inspired by the protests of the Black Consciousness movement of the late 1960s, which demanded the inclusion of the black experience in academic work, and in this case, in Latin American history. Palmer's work was the first book to be published in English on blacks in colonial Mexico, however he was not the first scholar to engage this topic, that distinction belonging to Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran, who published among other works, La poblicion negra de Mexico, 1519-1810 (1946). While in the popular sense, the discussion of slavery has been heavily influenced by the history of the nineteenth century United States South, th....

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