The Black Middle
Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan
by Matthew Restall
433 pages· 2009· ISBN 9780804749831
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The Black Middle is the first book-length study of the interaction of black slaves and other people of African descent with Mayas and Spaniards in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan (southern Mexico).
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