Jay T. Harrison

About The Author

Jay T. Harrison is an associate professor and the chair of the department of history at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, where he also directs the college's program in public history. He is the coauthor of Almost Heaven: Fifty Years of Purgatory and the coeditor of The Franciscans in Colonial Mexico.

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Books by Jay T. Harrison

At the Heart of the Borderlands

Africans and Afro-Descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America

Edited by Cameron D. Jones and Jay T. Harrison

At the Heart of the Borderlands is the first book-length study of Africans and Afro-descendants in the frontiers of Spanish America. While people of African descent have formed part of most borderlands histories, this study recognizes and explains their critical contribution to the formation of f...

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