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Third Floor, Room 3160
Mail Stop 906
419.530.2164
jhcase@淫妻社.Edu
Charles Beatty-Medina, Ph.D.

Professor
Latin American History, Conquest and Colonialism, African Diaspora and Atlantic
UH 5210-H
419.530.5060
charles.beattymedina@utoledo.edu
Charles Beatty-Medina,听Professor, specializes in the history of Colonial Latin America, the African Diaspora, the Atlantic and circum-Caribbean region. In addition to research at numerous U.S. archives and collections, he has undertaken archival research in Ecuador, Spain, Colombia, and Mexico. His publications examine the African maroon societies of colonial Ecuador and African slave resistance.
Publications
- Review, Bryant, Sherwin.听Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage: Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito,听Ethnohistory, 2017.
- Review, Diouf, Sylviane.听Slavery鈥檚 Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons, EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE, 2017.
- 鈥淎lonso de Illescas鈥 and 鈥淔rancisco de Arobe鈥 for听Oxford听Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, 2015.
- 鈥淢aroons Societies in Latin America鈥 (Oxford Press, Online Bibliographies) 2014.
- Contested Territories: Native Americans & Non-Natives in the Lower Great Lakes, 1700-1850, Editor and Contributor, Michigan State University Press. 2012.
- 鈥淏etween the Cross and the Sword: Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in sixteenth and early seventeenth century Esmeraldas.鈥 Book Chapter in听Africans to Colonial Spanish America, eds. Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel S. O鈥橳oole, Ben Vinson III., University of Illinois Press, 2012.
- 鈥淔ray Alonso de Espinosa鈥檚 Report on Pacifying the Fugitive Slaves of the Pacific Coast.鈥 Book chapter in听Documenting Latin America: Gender and Race, Empire and Nation, eds. Leo Garofalo and Erin O鈥機onner. Prentice Hall Publishers, 2010.
- 鈥淎lonso de Illescas: African,听Ladino, and Maroon Leader in 16th听century colonial Ecuador.鈥 Book Chapter in听The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic 1500-2000, eds. Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian and Karen Racine. Rowman and Littlefield, 2009.
- 鈥淟etter from Don Alonso de Illescas from the province of Esmeraldas.鈥 Book chapter in听Afro-Latin Voices, eds. Kathryn McKnight and Leo Garofalo. Hackett Publishing Company, 2009.
- Review, Graubart, Karen.听With Our Labor and our Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru,听Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas听6, no. 4 (Winter 2009) 121-123.
- "Caught between Rivals: The Spanish-African Maroon Competition for Captive Labor in the Region of Esmeraldas During the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries, "听The Americas听63, no. 1 (2006): 113-36.
- "El retrato de los cimarrones de Esmeraldas,鈥 in听Ecuador~Espa帽a: historia y perspectiva, edited by Mar铆a Elena Porras and Pedro Calvo-Sotelo, 18-21: Embajada de Espa帽a en el Ecuador, Archivo Hist贸rico del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores del Ecuador, 2001