Ana María Silva Campo is a Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She specializes in the histories of race, gender, and the law in colonial Latin American cities. She earned her Ph.D. in History at the University of Michigan and holds B.A.s from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Her book manuscript, Roots in Stone and Slavery, studies the formation of religious, gendered, and increasingly racialized hierarchies in Cartagena de Indias, the main port for the trade in African captives in Spanish South America during the seventeenth century. Drawing on insights from urban ecology studies, Roots in Stone and Slavery examines how the political economy of the slave trade generated intense local competition over urban spaces, real estate, and property in persons.