How Juan and Leonor Won Their Freedom: Litigation and Liberty in Seventeenth-Century Mexico.

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      Focuses on procedures involved in suing for liberty of slaves in New Mexico during the seventeenth century. Litigation of slave Leonor Reyes; Impact of slaves' freedom on masters according to attorney Pedro de Castro; Ways slaves' cases arrived at the tribunal.