Blacks, Indians, and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes: Reclaiming the Forgotten in Colonial Mizque, 1550-1782

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Blacks, Indians, and Spaniards within the Eastern Andes examines the little known province of Mizque and its colonial populations from 1550 to 1782. Mizque’s sub-puna valleys, lowland plains, and tropical forests boasted more than one desirable ecological zones. It used to be inhabited by diverse Andean ethnic groups, some with Amazonian ties and a few who were aggressive warriors. The Spanish conquest of the region, incomplete at best, reconfigured the land and labor systems and created a hinterland-to-highland colonial market system, fostering an economic boom in wine, sugar, coca, and livestock. African slaves brought in to supplement the impulsively declining indigenous labor force further contributed to demographic and economic change beyond the regulate of the Spanish imperial state.

Lolita Gutiérrez Brockington’s work also analyzes how imperial regulate met with resistance and how Africans, Indians, and Spaniards, and their descendants interacted with one some other. Her study uncovers an intersection and cross-fertilization of sociocultural measurements identifiable within the place of business, courts, church, and private lives. Brockington innovatively uses Spanish colonial documentary sources, including serial financial accounts of rich orphans, court cases, parish records, and census information of hacienda workers to elucidate race, ethnic, class, and gender issues inside the colonial reality of contradiction and ambiguity.

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