chinos" became reclassified as Indians or indigenous vassals of the Spanish crown. Moreover, while indigenous people were reclassified as “African” and “Negroes”, chino slaves were allowed to obtain an indigenous identity and status. The main source of information used for this discussion will be from the book, Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians by Taitiana Seijas.
During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia journeyed to Mexico on the ships of the Manila Galleon. Upon arrival in Mexico, they were grouped together and categorized as chinos. Their experience illustrates the interconnectedness of Spain’s colonies and the reach of the crown, which brought people together from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe in a historically unprecedented way. In time, chinos in Mexico came to be treated under the law as Indians, becoming indigenous vassals of the Spanish crown after 1672. The implications of this legal change were enormous: as Indians, rather than chinos, they could no longer be held as slaves. Tatiana Seijas tracks chinos’ complex journey from the slave market in Manila to the streets of Mexico City, and from bondage to liberty. In doing so, she challenges commonly held assumptions about the uniformity of the slave experience in the Americas.
@komodo can I merge these two threads?
(7) Filipino blood in México – Philippians (Las Isles Filipinas) – Forum (amazians.com)
How about the Chinito Pinoys? Probably got excluded from the band.
@james have you been around Mexicans? They call other amerindians Mexicans Chinito.
Filipinos fall under chinos