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MASFERRER LEON, Cristina Verónica. Por las ánimas de negros bozales: Las cofradías de personas de origen africano en la ciudad de México (siglo XVII). Cuicuilco [online]. 2011, vol.18, n.51, pp.83-104. ISSN 0185-1659.

In New Spain's capital city the population of African descent was significant. During the XVII^th Century, the confraternities of Africans and African descendants enhanced the development of social relationships which allowed them to recover and recreate some identitary elements. Being a part of these brotherhoods allowed black, morenos and mulattos to accomplish the Christian religious demands accepted by the novohispanic authorities and generate social relationships with people of their same origin. The authorities wanted to control and disarticulate these confraternities because they suspected they were related to the uprisings of the period. It was not easy to control them, since the Africans and African descendants of Mexico City had various confraternities, organizations accepted and encouraged by Church.

Palavras-chave : Confraternities; Africans; African descendants; Uprisings; Mexico City; XVIIth Century.