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The Indians of Tejupan want to raise silk on their own (Oaxaca, Mexico, 1543)
Land concentration and environmental degradation : town council records on deforestation in Uyumbicho (Quito, 1553-96)
The telling of tales : a Spanish priest and his Maya parishioners (Yucatán, 1573-90)
Directorio para confesores : "Lords who hold temporal government over vassals" (Mexico, 1585)
"In the Service of God, I order these temples of idolatrous worship razed to the ground" : extirpation of idolatry and the search for the Santuario grande of Iguaque (Columbia, 1595)
Affairs of the courtroom : Fernando de Medina confesses to killing his wife (Charcas, 1595)
The spiritual and physical ecstasies of a sixteenth-century Beata : Marina de San Miguel confesses before the Mexican Inquisition (Mexico, 1598)
Spaniards in the Nahua countryside : Dr. Diego de León Plaza and Nahuatl land sale documents (Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Under investigation for the abominable sin : Damián de Morales stands accused of attempting to seduce Antón de Tierra de Congo (Charcas, 1611)
"Wife of my soul and heart, and all my solace" : annulment suit between Diego Andrés de Arenas and Ysabel Allay Suyo (Huánuco, Peru, 1618)
Favored women, subjected Indians : the settlement of Pero d'Araujo's estate in São Paulo (1637-40)
Catarina María complains that Jean Teioa forcibly deflowered her (Mexico, 1693)
On her deathbed, María de la Candelaria accuses Michaela de Molina of casting spells (Guatemala, 1696)
Dance of the people : the chuchumbé (Mexico, 1766)
Drinking, gambling, and death on a colonial hacienda (Quito, 1768)
Letters of insurrection : the rebellion of the communities (Charcas, 1781)
Scandal at the church : José de Alfaro accuses Doña Theresa Bravo and others of insulting and beating his Castiza wife, Josefa Cadena (Mexico, 1782)
Don Manuel Valdivieso y Carrión protests the marriage of his daughter to Don Teodoro Jaramillo, a person of lower social standing (Quito, 1784-85)
Permission to marry : eighteenth-century matrimonial files (Montevideo, 1786)
Felipe Edimboro sues for manumission, Don Francisco Xavier Sánchez contests (Florida, 1794)
"The most vile atrocities" : accusations of slander against María Cofignie, Parda libre (Louisiana, 1795)
Urban slavery in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil : the wills of Captain Joaquim Félix de Santana, Colonel Manoel Pereira da Silva, and Rosa Maria da Conceição (1809, 1814, 1843)
Meltdown in new Spain : Viceroy Apodaca's account of the state of the rebellion (Mexico, 1816).
Land concentration and environmental degradation : town council records on deforestation in Uyumbicho (Quito, 1553-96)
The telling of tales : a Spanish priest and his Maya parishioners (Yucatán, 1573-90)
Directorio para confesores : "Lords who hold temporal government over vassals" (Mexico, 1585)
"In the Service of God, I order these temples of idolatrous worship razed to the ground" : extirpation of idolatry and the search for the Santuario grande of Iguaque (Columbia, 1595)
Affairs of the courtroom : Fernando de Medina confesses to killing his wife (Charcas, 1595)
The spiritual and physical ecstasies of a sixteenth-century Beata : Marina de San Miguel confesses before the Mexican Inquisition (Mexico, 1598)
Spaniards in the Nahua countryside : Dr. Diego de León Plaza and Nahuatl land sale documents (Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Under investigation for the abominable sin : Damián de Morales stands accused of attempting to seduce Antón de Tierra de Congo (Charcas, 1611)
"Wife of my soul and heart, and all my solace" : annulment suit between Diego Andrés de Arenas and Ysabel Allay Suyo (Huánuco, Peru, 1618)
Favored women, subjected Indians : the settlement of Pero d'Araujo's estate in São Paulo (1637-40)
Catarina María complains that Jean Teioa forcibly deflowered her (Mexico, 1693)
On her deathbed, María de la Candelaria accuses Michaela de Molina of casting spells (Guatemala, 1696)
Dance of the people : the chuchumbé (Mexico, 1766)
Drinking, gambling, and death on a colonial hacienda (Quito, 1768)
Letters of insurrection : the rebellion of the communities (Charcas, 1781)
Scandal at the church : José de Alfaro accuses Doña Theresa Bravo and others of insulting and beating his Castiza wife, Josefa Cadena (Mexico, 1782)
Don Manuel Valdivieso y Carrión protests the marriage of his daughter to Don Teodoro Jaramillo, a person of lower social standing (Quito, 1784-85)
Permission to marry : eighteenth-century matrimonial files (Montevideo, 1786)
Felipe Edimboro sues for manumission, Don Francisco Xavier Sánchez contests (Florida, 1794)
"The most vile atrocities" : accusations of slander against María Cofignie, Parda libre (Louisiana, 1795)
Urban slavery in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil : the wills of Captain Joaquim Félix de Santana, Colonel Manoel Pereira da Silva, and Rosa Maria da Conceição (1809, 1814, 1843)
Meltdown in new Spain : Viceroy Apodaca's account of the state of the rebellion (Mexico, 1816).