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Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico

Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico

Taylor, William B.

Paperback

General World HistoryMexican HistoryTrue Crime

ISBN10: 0520397665
ISBN13: 9780520397668
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Dec 5 2023
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

The curious tale of two priest impersonators in late colonial Mexico

Cut loose from their ancestral communities by wars, natural disasters, and the great systemic changes of an expanding Europe, vagabond strangers and others out of place found their way through the turbulent history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. As shadowy characters inspiring deep suspicion, fascination, and sometimes charity, they prompted a stream of decrees and administrative measures that treated them as nameless threats to good order and public morals. The vagabonds and impostors of colonial Mexico are as elusive in the written record as they were on the ground, and the administrative record offers little more than commonplaces about them. Fugitive Freedom locates two of these suspect strangers, Joseph Aguayo and Juan Atondo, both priest impersonators and petty villains in central Mexico during the last years of Spanish rule.

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