DOI: 10.1093/jsh/shad058 ISSN: 0022-4529
Antona’s Suit
Tatiana Seijas- Sociology and Political Science
- History
Abstract
Antona, originally from Upper Guinea, raised a family in Mexico’s Black Pacific. Her story, memorialized in a freedom suit from 1597, suggests that framing survival as agency helps us reconstruct the experiences of people in a way that accounts for the complexity of power in their historical contexts.