Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Rochester. His research focuses on the experiences of people of African descent in New Spain and the Caribbean. His first book, Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Ángeles, 1531-1706 (Cambridge University Press, 2018), examines how enslaved people negotiated bondage in four distinct spaces: the convent, textile mill, elite residence and marketplace. His current book project, “Mexican Atlantic: Freedom, Captivity and the 1683 Raid on Veracruz,” analyzes a devastating pirate attack through the forced dispersal of 1,500 Afro-Mexicans to early Carolina, Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and other locations during the late seventeenth century. His research has been published in Ethnohistory, Slavery & Abolition, and The Journal of Global Slavery.