{"title":"\"This woman's resistance to her son's paying tribute\": Afrodescendant Women, Family, and Royal Tribute in New Spain","authors":"Norah L. A. Gharala","doi":"10.1525/msem.2022.38.1.10","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article focuses on how women of African descent responded to colonial taxation. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, free Afrodescendants were subject to a royal tribute tax based on their African ancestry. This tribute was also based on genealogy, gender, and family. The article argues that women petitioners referred to their marriages as evidence of their exempt tributary status, as they sought to mitigate the effects of tribute. Without denying their African ancestry, free mulatas asserted their family histories. These petitions caused colonial officials to re-examine what women of African descent owed the Spanish crown.Abstract:Este artículo se centra en la reacción de las mujeres afrodescendientes al régimen fiscal colonial. Desde el siglo XVI al XVIII, los afrodescendientes libres estaban sujetos a un tributo real debido a su ascendencia africana. Este tributo se fundamentaba también en la genealogía, el género y la familia. Este artículo propone que las peticiones de mujeres hicieron referencia a los matrimonios como evidencia de su calidad exenta de tributar como estrategias de reducir los efectos del tributo. Sin negar su ascendencia africana, estas mulatas libres reivindicaban las historias de sus familias. Estas peticiones hicieron que los burócratas reexaminaran las contribuciones de las mujeres afrodescendientes a la Corona española.","PeriodicalId":44006,"journal":{"name":"MEXICAN STUDIES-ESTUDIOS MEXICANOS","volume":"38 1","pages":"10 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"MEXICAN STUDIES-ESTUDIOS MEXICANOS","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2022.38.1.10","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article focuses on how women of African descent responded to colonial taxation. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, free Afrodescendants were subject to a royal tribute tax based on their African ancestry. This tribute was also based on genealogy, gender, and family. The article argues that women petitioners referred to their marriages as evidence of their exempt tributary status, as they sought to mitigate the effects of tribute. Without denying their African ancestry, free mulatas asserted their family histories. These petitions caused colonial officials to re-examine what women of African descent owed the Spanish crown.Abstract:Este artículo se centra en la reacción de las mujeres afrodescendientes al régimen fiscal colonial. Desde el siglo XVI al XVIII, los afrodescendientes libres estaban sujetos a un tributo real debido a su ascendencia africana. Este tributo se fundamentaba también en la genealogía, el género y la familia. Este artículo propone que las peticiones de mujeres hicieron referencia a los matrimonios como evidencia de su calidad exenta de tributar como estrategias de reducir los efectos del tributo. Sin negar su ascendencia africana, estas mulatas libres reivindicaban las historias de sus familias. Estas peticiones hicieron que los burócratas reexaminaran las contribuciones de las mujeres afrodescendientes a la Corona española.
摘要:本文关注非洲裔女性如何应对殖民税收。从16世纪到18世纪,自由的非洲后裔要根据他们的非洲血统缴纳皇家贡税。这种进贡也是基于家谱、性别和家庭。文章认为,妇女上访者将她们的婚姻作为她们被豁免朝贡地位的证据,因为她们试图减轻朝贡的影响。在不否认他们的非洲血统的情况下,自由的穆拉塔人坚持他们的家族历史。这些请愿书促使殖民地官员重新审视非洲裔妇女欠西班牙王室的债务。摘要:Este artículo se centra en la reacción de las mujeres afro - descenentes al contrimimen财政殖民。Desde el siglo十六至十八世纪,所有非洲后裔自由建立了对真正的debido和su ascencia africana的不贡品。Este tributo se fundamentaba tamamicans en la genealogía, el gsamicero by la familia。Este artículo propone que as peticiones de de mujeres更详细地参考了损失矩阵、损失证据、损失程度、损失战略和减少损失效应。在非洲的上升趋势中,非洲混血儿的自由和家庭的历史。Estas peticiones hicieron que los burócratas reexaminaras contribuciones de las mujeres a frofroes a la Corona española。
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The rich cultural production and unique peoples of Mexico--coupled with the country"s complex history, political legacy, social character, economy, and scientific development--lay the foundation for the bilingual Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, the only U.S. published academic journal of its kind. Journal articles in both English and Spanish are welcomed from a variety of multidisciplinary perspectives and methodologies, comparative analyses notwithstanding. All content published remains focused on the contributions to and knowledge of Mexican studies as a discipline.