KNYGA Nora E Jaffary Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 to 1806

Grant of Tacuba by Hernan Cortos to Isabel Moctezuma, firstborn daughter of Moctezuma II and her last will and testament (Mexico City, 1526, 1550) -- Beatriz, India's lawsuit for freedom from slavery (Castile, Spain, 1558-1574) / introduction and translation by Nancy E. van Deusen -- Women's wills (Potoso, 1577 and 1601; La Plata, 1598 and 1658 -- Midwife Francisca Diaz's petition to return to Mexico (Seville, 1566) -- Life and love in women's letters to spouses (Spain and Mexico, 1567-1576) -- Mothers and wives in labor agreements (Arequipa, 1590; La Plata, 1602; and Potoso, 1571 and 1659) -- Criminal complaint by Angela de Palacios on behalf of her daughter, Leonor Arias (Potoso, 1584) -- Barbara Lopez, India accuses her husband of abuse (Santa Fe, Colombia 1612) -- Sor Ana's "Travel excerpt from Mexico to Manila" (Mexico and Manila, 1620) introduction and translation by Sara E. Owens -- The spiritual diary of an afro-Peruvian mystic, Ursula de Jesus (Lima, 1647-1661) / translation by Nancy E. van Deusen -- Isabel Hernandez, midwife and healer, appears before the inquisition. (Mexico, 1652) -- Do Juan de Vargas y Orellana accuses his wife Doa Francisca de Marquina of abortion. (Potoso, 1703) -- Founding Corpus Christi, a convent for indigenous women (Mexico City, 1723) -- An African woman petitions for freedom in a colonial Brazilian mining town. (Vila Rica, Brazil, 1766) / introduction and translation by Mariana Dantas -- Isabel Victoria Garcia sues the Hacienda del Trapiche over land ownership (Pamplona, Colombia, 1777) -- Between heaven and earth: Thereza de Jesus Jozo's last will and testament (Cachoeira, Bahia, 1777) / introduction and translation by Caroline Garriott -- Natividad, negra, sues her owner for freedom (Lima, 1792) -- A colonial crossdresser (Mexico, 1796) -- Anna Gallum, freed slave and property owner (Florida, 1801). introduction and translation by Jane Landers -- A female slave owner's abuse of an enslaved woman (Neiva, Colombia, 1803) -- Maria del Carmen Ventura's criminal trial for infanticide (Zaqualtipan, Mexico, 1806)