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| Maps and Figures | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Document Themes | |
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| Document Genres | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Indians of Tejupan Want to Raise Silk on Their Own (Oaxaca, Mexico, 1543) | |
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| Land Concentration and Environmental Degradation: Town Council Records on Deforestation in Uyumbicho (Quito, 1553-96), Karen Viera Powers | |
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| The Telling of Tales: A Spanish Priest and His Maya Prisoners (Yucatan, 1573-90) | |
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| Directorio Para Confesores: "Lords Who Hold Temporal Government Over Vassals" (Mexico, 1585) | |
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| "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 (Colombia 1595) | |
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| Affairs of the Courtroom: Fernando de Medina Confesses to Killing His Wife (Charcas, 1595) | |
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| The Spiritual and Physical Ecstasies of a Sixteenth-Century Beata: Marina de San Miguel Confesses Before the Mexican Inquisition (Mexico, 1598) | |
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| Spaniards in the Nahua Countryside: Dr. Diego de Le?n Plaza and Nahuatl Land Sale Documents (Mexico, Early Seventeenth Century) | |
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| Under Investigation for the Abominable Sin: Damian de Morales Stands Accused of Attempting to Seduce Anton de Tierra de Congo (Charcas, 1611) | |
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| "Wife of My Soul and Heart, and All My Solace": Annulment Suit Between Diego Andres de Arenas Ysabel Allay Suyo (Huanuco, Peru, 1618) | |
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| Favored Women, Subjected Indians: The Settlement of Pero d'Araujo's Estate in Sao Paulo (1637-40) | |
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| Catarina Maria Complains that Juan Teioa Forcibly Deflowered Her (Mexico, 1693) | |
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| On Her Deathbed, Maria de la Candelaria Accuses Michaela de Molina of Casting Spells (Guatemala, 1696) | |
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| Dance of the People: The Chuchumbe (Mexico, 1766) | |
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| Drinking, Gambling, and Death on a Colonial Hacienda (Quito, 1768) | |
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| Letters of Insurrection: The Rebellion of the Communities (Charcas, 1781) | |
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| Scandal at the Church: Jose de Alfaro Accuses Dona Theresa Bravo and Others of Insulting and Beating His Castiza Wife, Josefa Cadena (Mexico, 1782) | |
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| Don Manuel Valdivieso y Carrion Protests the Marriage of his Daughter with Don Teodoro Jaramillo, a Person of Lower Social Standing (Quito, 1784-85) | |
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| Permission to Marry: Eighteenth-Century Matrimonial Files (Montevideo, 1796) | |
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| Felipe Edimboro Sues for Manumission, Don Francisco Xavier Sanchez Contests (Florida, 1794) | |
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| "The Most Vile Atrocities": Accusations of Slander Against Maria Cofignie, Parda Libre (Louisiana, 1795) | |
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| Urban Slavery in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil: The Wills of Captain Joaquim Felix de Santana, Colonel Manoel Pereira da Silva, and Rose Maria de Conceicao (1809, 1814, 1843) | |
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| Meltdown in New Spain: Viceroy Apodaca's Account of the State of Rebellion (Mexico, 1816) | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Sources and Credits for Illustrations | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |