The Self-Liberated Slave Periquillo Saves the Missionary Juan Pobre: Blackness, Indigeneity, and the Origins of the Black Pacific.
Seeking to chart the depth of the history of the Black Pacific, this article utilizes a contemporaneous Spanish chronicle to interrogate an episode from 1602 in Luta (Mariana Islands), where a former slave named Periquillo negotiated with CHamorus to spare the life of the missionary Juan Pobre de Za...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Pacific History Vol. 60; no. 1; pp. 1 - 27 |
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