Frances Lacsamana

Granddaughter of Angrai-oxa and later teacher, missionary, mediator, frontierswoman, and expedition leader.

1820’s she impressed foreign travelers with her intelligence, her correct speaking knowledge Portuguese and her piety.

She developed her ideals regarding the conditions of Indian life in her day, and distinguished herself as a communal leader, during the late colonial aldeia.

Both young mulatto slaves lived in central Mexico during the seventeenth century.

Juan was born a slave in the city of Oaxaca in 1627.

He escaped several times, punished and made a pact with an Indian to worship the devil to give his master peace.

After realizing he could not attend lent with others he turned to God for help and was able to escape from Zacatecas.

Gertrudis was a freeborn slave and a free young mullatta woman.

She was punished for blasphemy and paraded through the streets in public humiliation.

She was assigned different locations for work as a slave and many times she tried to escape.

Her master Don Mateo convinced her to marry a slave and return to be released from her shackles.

Born in Lima 1693, son of Captain Guillermo Bequer and Dona Juana Barraza. His father had murdered a man named Torres and months after became a priest. While the salary given as a priest was so limited he had other arrangements made to help

with the issue. He seemed as a very indecisive man. But because the city of Lima was governed primarily

by the church he always fell back to serve.

Her life was expected to either marry or enter the convent and would not exceed any more than to sew, prepare tasty delicacies, read her prayers and hymns and manage a few household slaves

The Nunnery signified her spiritual wedding.

She lent out money in forms of loans and began gradually accumulating for the well-being of the convent.