jorge d’s Reviews > The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico > Status Update

This history book, drawn from New Spain's 17th/18th-century notarial archives, vividly brings to life resilient, witty, caring, and independent free women of African descent in colonial Mexico. Its human tone and unveiled stories connected me to my own heritage, shaped by their struggles & successes against a system trying to erase them. These women will forever linger in my mind.