Ana María Silva Campo is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her work has previously appeared in the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Colonial Latin American Review, and Varia História.

"The Holy Office of the Inquisition arrived in Cartagena de Indias in 1610 with no assigned building, guaranteed budget, or network of allies. How did the famously intimidating institution integrate itself into a port city that was central to the trade in African captives? Ana María Silva Campo examines the aggressive confiscation of goods from Black women accused of witchcraft and the cautious selective prosecutions of wealthy men suspected of religious deviance. This is a superb exploration of a 'spiritual economy' that encompassed traders, investors, judges, healers, priests, notaries, runaways from slavery, and a set of very strategic inquisitors." - Rebecca Scott, co-author of Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation"The Inquisition's Gambit constitutes a watershed moment for the study of the Inquisition in the Atlantic world. Its careful and creative examination of little studied financial records and a rich array of narrative archival sources tells a gripping story that will be of great interest to scholars of the transatlantic slave trade, social history of the Caribbean, urban history, religious history, and African diaspora studies." - Larissa Brewer-García, author of Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada"From the opening scene on the docks of Cartagena de Indias, Ana María Silva Campo uncovers an astounding seventeenth-century port city world—of Black businesswomen and property-owners, merchants descended from Iberian Jewish families, enslaved boat captains and midwives—and the Inquisition that threatened them all." - Kathleen DuVal, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Ana María Silva Campo is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her work has previously appeared in the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Colonial Latin American Review, and Varia História.

"The Holy Office of the Inquisition arrived in Cartagena de Indias in 1610 with no assigned building, guaranteed budget, or network of allies. How did the famously intimidating institution integrate itself into a port city that was central to the trade in African captives? Ana María Silva Campo examines the aggressive confiscation of goods from Black women accused of witchcraft and the cautious selective prosecutions of wealthy men suspected of religious deviance. This is a superb exploration of a 'spiritual economy' that encompassed traders, investors, judges, healers, priests, notaries, runaways from slavery, and a set of very strategic inquisitors." - Rebecca Scott, co-author of Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation"The Inquisition's Gambit constitutes a watershed moment for the study of the Inquisition in the Atlantic world. Its careful and creative examination of little studied financial records and a rich array of narrative archival sources tells a gripping story that will be of great interest to scholars of the transatlantic slave trade, social history of the Caribbean, urban history, religious history, and African diaspora studies." - Larissa Brewer-García, author of Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada"From the opening scene on the docks of Cartagena de Indias, Ana María Silva Campo uncovers an astounding seventeenth-century port city world—of Black businesswomen and property-owners, merchants descended from Iberian Jewish families, enslaved boat captains and midwives—and the Inquisition that threatened them all." - Kathleen DuVal, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Ana María Silva Campo is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her work has previously appeared in the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Colonial Latin American Review, and Varia História.

"The Holy Office of the Inquisition arrived in Cartagena de Indias in 1610 with no assigned building, guaranteed budget, or network of allies. How did the famously intimidating institution integrate itself into a port city that was central to the trade in African captives? Ana María Silva Campo examines the aggressive confiscation of goods from Black women accused of witchcraft and the cautious selective prosecutions of wealthy men suspected of religious deviance. This is a superb exploration of a 'spiritual economy' that encompassed traders, investors, judges, healers, priests, notaries, runaways from slavery, and a set of very strategic inquisitors." - Rebecca Scott, co-author of Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation"The Inquisition's Gambit constitutes a watershed moment for the study of the Inquisition in the Atlantic world. Its careful and creative examination of little studied financial records and a rich array of narrative archival sources tells a gripping story that will be of great interest to scholars of the transatlantic slave trade, social history of the Caribbean, urban history, religious history, and African diaspora studies." - Larissa Brewer-García, author of Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada"From the opening scene on the docks of Cartagena de Indias, Ana María Silva Campo uncovers an astounding seventeenth-century port city world—of Black businesswomen and property-owners, merchants descended from Iberian Jewish families, enslaved boat captains and midwives—and the Inquisition that threatened them all." - Kathleen DuVal, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America