Joan Cameron Bristol

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Joan C. Bristol is an associate professor of history at George Mason University and the author of Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century (UNM Press).

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Books by Joan Cameron Bristol

Esperanza Across the Atlantic

A Eurafrican Crypto-Jew in the Spanish Empire

By Joan Cameron Bristol

In a gripping narrative, Bristol explores the life story of a single woman, Esperanza Rodriguez, as a window into the intersections of religious and racial identities in early modern Spain and Spanish America.

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Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches

Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century

By Joan Cameron Bristol

New information from Inquisition documents shows how African slaves in Mexico adapted to the constraints of the Church and the Spanish crown in order to survive in their communities.

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