21. María del Carmen Ventura's criminal trial for infanticide (Zaqualtipan, Mexico, 1806). 2. Beatriz, India's lawsuit for freedom from slavery (Castile, Spain, 1558-1574) / introduction and translation by Jane Landers -- 3. Women's wills (Potosí, 1577 and 1601; La Plata, 1598 and 1658) -- 4. Midwife Francisca Díaz's petition to return to Mexico (Seville, 1566) -- 5. gLife and love in women's letters to spouses (Spain and Mexico, 1567-1576) -- 6. Mothers and wives in labor agreements (Arequipa, 1590; La Plata, 1602; and Potosí, 1571 and 1659) -- 7. Criminal complaint by Angela de Palacios on behalf of her daughter, Leonor Arias (Potosí, 1584) -- 8. Bárbara López, India accuses her husband of abuse (Santa Fe, 1612) -- 9. Sor Ana's Travel excerpt from Mexico to Manila (Mexico and Manila, 1620) / introduction and translation by Sara E. Owens -- 10. The spiritual diary of an Afro-Peruvian mystic, Úrsula de Jesús (Lima, 1647-1661) / translation by Nancy E. van Deusen -- 11. Isabel Hernández, midwife and healer, appears before the inquisition. (Mexico, 1652) -- 12. Don Juan de Vargas y Orellana accuses his wife Doña Francisca de Marquina of abortion. (Potosí, 1703) -- 13. Founding Corpus Christi, a convent for indigenous women (Mexico City, 1723) -- 14. An African woman petitions for freedom in a colonial Brazilian mining town. (Vila Rica, 1766) / introduction and translation by Mariana Dantas -- 15. Isabel Victoria García sues the Hacienda del Trapiche over land ownership (Pamplona, Colombia, 1777) -- 16. Between heaven and earth: Thereza de Jesús Maria Jozé's last will and testament (Cachoeira, Bahia, 1777) / introduction and translation by Caroline Garriott -- 17. Natividad, Negra, sues her owner for freedom (Lima, 1792) -- 18. A colonial crossdresser (Mexico, 1796) -- 19. Anna Gallum, freed slave and property owner (Florida, 1801) / introduction and translation by Jane Landers -- 20. A female slave owner's abuse of an enslaved woman (Neiva, Colombia, 1803) -- 21. María del Carmen Ventura's criminal trial for infanticide (Zaqualtipan, Mexico, 1806).
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