The African slave trade, beginning in the fifteenth century, brought African languages into contact with Spanish and Portuguese, resulting in the Africans' grad

This 2004 book describes the major forms of Afro-Hispanic language contact and how they have affected contemporary Spanish.

The book is accompanied by the largest known anthology of primary Afro-Hispanic texts from the Iberian Peninsula, North and South America, and former Afro-Hispa

This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions r

Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Afric