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Danielle Terrazas Williams�Lecturer, School of History�University of Leeds, UK

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Overview

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  • Negotiating colonial institutions
    • - Case of Catalina de Morales
  • Legal subjecthood

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Long Ties via the Camino Real�Veracruz Port to Xalapa�

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Xalapa, 1867

  • Vista General de Jalapa, litografía, ca. 1867. Col. Particular (Ramón Aureliano, RAA)

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“Women of Means” in Veracruz

  • Capital Management
    • Social, Cultural, and Economic
  • Spectrum
    • Recently manumitted
    • Heirs of intergenerational wealth
  • Proximity to Slavery
    • Family, ownership, plantations, marronage
  • Autonomy/Freedom
  • Navigating legal culture

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Interventions: Atlantic Slavery

  • Re-orient the periodization/location of free women
  • 16th & 17th centuries vs. 18th & 19th centuries
  • Justice and the Notary Public

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