Nicole von Germeten

About The Author

Nicole von Germeten is associate professor of history at Oregon State University. Her publications include Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans and, as translator and editor, Alonso de Sandoval's Treatise on Slavery: Selections from De Instauranda Aethiopum Salute.

Books by Nicole von Germeten

Violent Delights, Violent Ends

Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias

This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the reader beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city. Cartagena was an important Spanish port and the site of an Inquisition high court, a slave market, a leper colony, a military base, and a prison colony—colonial inst...
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