'My Conscience is Free and Clear':African-Descended Women, Status, and Slave Owning in Mid-Colonial Mexico

Autor:	Danielle Terrazas Williams
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Cultural Studies History 060101 anthropology media_common.quotation_subject Will and testament 06 humanities and the arts Colonialism Dozen 060104 history Free and clear Debt Law 0601 history and archaeology Estate Conscience media_common
Zdroj:	The Americas. 75:525-554
ISSN:	1533-6247 0003-1615
DOI:	10.1017/tam.2018.32
Popis:	On March 8, 1679, Polonia de Ribas entered her last will and testament into record at the offices of Alonso de Neira Claver, the royal notary public of Xalapa. The will included information about Polonia's family, possessions, debts to be collected, and how she wanted her estate distributed after her passing. She was well acquainted with the appropriate processes and venues to ensure that such matters were officially acknowledged. In the second half of the seventeenth century, Polonia demonstrated her legal acumen by documenting half a dozen transactions with the notary public in Xalapa.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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