The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial YucatanWinner of the Conference on Latin American History's 2010 Mexican History Book Prize. The Black Middle is the first full length study of black African slaves and other people of African descent in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan. Matthew Restall makes expert use of Spanish and Maya language documents from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, found in a dozen different archives. His goal is to discover what life was like for a