Abstract

DTJURING THE THREE CENTURIES OF colonial rule, more than 200,000 African slaves were brought into Mexico.' Historians and social scientists have paid relatively scant attention to the fate of the black man in either the colonial or modem period of Mexican history. And although it is generally known that considerable racial mixing, loosely described as mestizaje, took place in Hispanic America, scholars have not attempted a detailed analysis of the extent and direction of this miscegenation in terms of actual marriage patterns of persons of African descent. Despite the voluminous colonial marriage records available in the numerous Mexican church archives, few scholars have attempted to delve into such interesting questions as the following:

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