Swimming the Christian Atlantic : : Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians in the seventeenth century / / by Jonathan Schorsch.

• Superior document: The Atlantic world, v. 17/1-2
• Author: Schorsch, Jonathan, 1963-
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 17/1-2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (584 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Scholarship on the formation of the Atlantic world through contributions from Europe, Africa and the Americas has grown in recent decades. The results offer new understandings of the transformations in ethnic and religious identity faced by peoples from all the surrounding continents. Long used by scholars of Jewish studies, records from the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions have become an important source for historians of Africans and Amerindians in the Iberian colonial orbit. Using these and other materials, this book explores race, religion and politics among three newly and incompletely Christianized groups in the seventeenth century: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians. This fresh cross-cultural analysis brings these differing trajectories into dialogue.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Materials / J. Schorsch -- Introduction / J. Schorsch -- Maps / J. Schorsch -- Chapter One. Otherness And Identity: Judeoconversos, Judaism, Afroiberians And Christianity / J. Schorsch -- Chapter Two. The - Free And Not So Free, The Christian And Not So Christian / J. Schorsch -- Chapter Three. Some Incidents In Cartagena De Las Indias / J. Schorsch -- Chapter Four. Masters And Slaves Under The Stare Of The Cross / J. Schorsch -- Chapter Five. Slaves And The Downtrodden Religion Of Their Masters / J. Schorsch -- Chapter Six. Jailed Judaizers And Their Jailers’ Servants / J. Schorsch -- Chapter Seven. Esperanza Rodriguez: A Mulata Marrana In Mexico City / J. Schorsch -- Preliminary Materials / J. Schorsch -- Chapter Eight. The Racial Imagination In The Writings Of (Ex-)Conversos / J. Schorsch -- Chapter Nine. (Re)Reading The Old/New World In The 1640's: The Relación Of Antonio De Montezinos / J. Schorsch -- Postscript / J. Schorsch -- Appendix An. Unpublished Letter From Antonio De Montezinos / J. Schorsch -- Bibliography / J. Schorsch -- Index / J. Schorsch.