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Their Lives, Their Wills - Women in the Borderlands, 1750-1846 (Paperback)
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Their Lives, Their Wills - Women in the Borderlands, 1750-1846 (Paperback)
Series: Women, Gender, and the West
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In 1815, in the Spanish settlement of San Antonio de Bexar, a dying
widow named Maria Concepcion de Estrada recorded her last will and
testament. Estrada used her will to record her debts and credits,
specify her property, leave her belongings to her children, make
requests for her funeral arrangements, and secure her religious
salvation. Wills like Estrada's reveal much about women's lives in
the late Spanish and Mexican colonial communities of Santa Fe, El
Paso, San Antonio, Saltillo, and San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala in
present-day northern Mexico. Using last wills and testaments as
main sources, Amy M. Porter explores the ways in which these
documents reveal details about religion, family, economics, and
material culture. In addition, the wills speak loudly to the
difficulties of frontier life, in which widowhood and child
mortality were commonplace. Most importantly, information in the
wills helps to explain the workings of the patriarchal system of
Spanish and Mexican borderland communities, showing that gender
role divisions were fluid in some respects. Supplemented by
censuses, inventories, court cases, and travellers' accounts,
women's wills paint a more complete picture of life in the
borderlands than the previously male-dominated historiography of
the region.
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