Author: María Elena Díaz
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804747134
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book tells the extraordinary story of a village of peasants and miners who were slaves belonging to the king of Spain and whose local patroness was a vision of the virgin. It explores the ways the royal slaves, assisted by te force of popular religion, achieved a degree of freedom unprecedented in other colonial societies of the New World.