Public lives, private secrets
Lateinamerika
Illegitimacy
Honor
Unmarried mothers
Masculinity
United states, social life and customs
Sex customs
Social classes
History
Throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, illegitimate offspring of elite families in colonial Spanish America appealed to the Council and Camara of the Indies in Spain to purchase gracias al sacar legitimations. Their applications provided intimate testimony concerning their own liv…
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