Abstract:On the evening of 6 September 1632, Inquisition officials arrested Teodora de Salcedo, a formerly enslaved woman, in Cartagena de Indias. That same night, they took a detailed inventory of her possessions: 'Firstly,' they wrote, 'a wooden house roofed with tiles' located in the neighborhood of Los Jagüeyes. Perhaps with Teodora de Salcedo still in the room, the officials continued to list all of her belongings. These included textiles, jewelry, religious objects, cooking and dining wares, furniture, paintings,… Show more
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