David Kazanjian

In David Kazanjian’s book “The Trusted Ones: A Conversation and a Conflict in Colonial Yucatán,” he re-assembles the history of an enslaved Black man named Juan Patricio who fought with a Spanish priest named Don Ignacio de Esquivel over the fate of a Maya woman named Fabiana Pech in 1690 on the Yucatán peninsula. “The Trusted Ones” reveals a potent Black and Indigenous critique of both dispossession and possession.