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 and that of my family in the region, shaped by their struggles and successes against a system constantly trying to contest their existences and erase them. These women will forever linger in my mind.
Hopefully a translation into Spanish is somewhere in the works.