Scholars have been making efforts to find and publish Afro-Latino voices for the past 15 years, but this is the first book-length anthology of narratives by people of African descent in the early modern Ibero-Atlantic world. The 18 documents include judicial inquiries, letters, last wills and testaments, petitions, trial proceedings, written dialogue, and as-told-to biography. They are arranged in the topical sections politics and wars, families and communities, religious beliefs and practices, and claiming and defending rights. Examples include maroon voices from the Plenque del Limón 1634, Ana de la Calle's 1719 will and goods on the northern Peruvian coast, African sailors and Puritan slavers in a Spanish Caribbean captivity narrative of 1635, and black women litigants in Lima's late colonial tribunals of the 1780s. A battery of maps help place the narratives geographically. This anthology includes the works in both their original Spanish or Portuguese along with facing page English translations. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)