Blasphemy And Slavery In New Spain

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The article by Villa-Flores provides insight of slavery in New Spain, telling the different kinds of abuse faced by the Spaniards and how slaves tried to earn freedom. Many slaves who were Christian saw the act of renouncing God and their Christian faith was the only way to seek a chance for freedom. Slaves often faced physical, emotional and verbal abuse of their masters. The author of the article is Javier Villa-Flores who compiled the article based on different resources to visibly define blasphemy and slavery in New Spain. He had received a doctorate in Latin American history at the University of California and San Diego. His work focuses on the problems of religion, colonialism, performance studies and social history of language in colonial

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