Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History centers on people from different parts of the world who came together to form societies by chance and by design in the years after 1492. This text encourages detailed exploration of the cultural development of colonial Latin America through a wide variety of documents and visual materials, most of which have been translated and presented originally for this collection.

Chapter 1 Editors' Note Chapter 2 List of Illustrations Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Part 4 Reference Maps Chapter 5 Map 1: The Iberian Peninsula Chapter 6 Map 2: The West African Coast and "Atlantic Mediterranean" Chapter 7 Map 3: Brazil Chapter 8 Map 4: New Spain and the Caribbean Basin Chapter 9 Map 5: Peru Chapter 10 Map 6: The Pajonal on Peru's Tarma Frontier Chapter 11 Introduction: Texts and Images for Colonial History Part 12 I: Old Worlds and the Time of Discoveries Chapter 13 The Ancestors of the People Called Indians: A View from Huarochiri, Peru (ca. 1598-1608) Chapter 14 The Inca's Tunics (Fifteenth to Sixteenth centuries) Chapter 15 The Lords and Holy Men of Tenochtitlan Reply to the Franciscans (1524) Chapter 16 The Aztec Stone of the Five Eras (Late Fifteenth century) Chapter 17 "Coexistence" in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms (Ninth to Twelfth centuries) Chapter 18 A Pope Rewards So "Salutary and Laudable a Work" (1455) Chapter 19 "There Can Easily Be Stamped Upon Them Whatever Belief We Wish to Give Them." Chapter 20 The First Letter from Brazil (1500) Chapter 21 Orders Given to "the Twelve" (1523) Chapter 22 Francisco de Vitoria, "On the Evangelization of Unbelievers," Salamanca, Spain (1534-35) Chapter 23 Two Woodcuts Accompanying a 1509 German Translation of Amerigo Vespucci's Letter to Pietro Soderini (September 4, 1504) (Illustrations) and Text) Chapter 24 Christoph Weiditz's Drawing of an Indian Woman of Mexico (1529) (Illustrations and Text) Chapter 25 Christoph Weiditz's Drawing of a Morisco Woman and Her Daughter at Home (1529) (Illustrations and Text) Part 26 II: The Americas as New Worlds for All? Chapter 27 The Jesuit and the Bishop, Bahia, Brazil (1550s) Chapter 28 Fray Pedro de Gante's Letter to Charles V, Mexico City (1552) Chapter 29 The Evils of Cochineal, Tlaxcala, Mexico (1553) Chapter 30 The Indian Pueblo of Texupa in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (1579) Chapter 31 Alonso Ortiz's Letter to His Wife, Mexico City (March 8, 1574?) Chapter 32 Jeronimo de Benarcama's Letter to Francisco de Borja, Granada, Spain (1566) Chapter 33 Jose de Acosta on the Salvation of the Indians (1588) Chapter 34 Two Images from the Codex Osuna, Mexico City (1565) (Illustrations and Text) Chapter 35 Two Images from the Codex Sierra, Oaxaca, Mexico (1550s-1560s) (Illustrations and Text) Chapter 36 Fray Diego Valades's Ideal Atrio and Its Activities (1579) (Illustrations and Text) Chapter 37 The Huejotzingo Altarpiece, Mexico (1586) (Illustrations and Text) Chapter 38 The Mulatto Gentlemen of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, by Thomas B. F. Cummins and William B. Taylor (Illustrations and Text) Chapter 39 Blacks Dancing (ca. 1640) (Illustrations and Text) Part 40 III: Mid-Colonial Ways and Orders Chapter 41 Making an Image and a Shrine, Copacabana, Peru (1582-1621) Chapter 42 Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Appeal Concerning the Priests, Peru (ca. 1615) Chapter 43 Pedro de Leon Portocarrero's Description of Lima, Peru (early Seventeenth century) Chapter 44 The Church and Monastery of San Francisco, Lima, Peru (1673) Chapter 45 Santa Rosa of Lima According to a Pious Accountant (1617) Chapter 46 Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz's Letter to Sor Filotea (1691) Chapter 47 Portraits of Santa Rosa and Sor Juana Chapter 48 Two Slaveries: The Sermons of Padre Antunio Vieira, Salvador, Bahia (ca. 1633) and So Luis do Maranho (1653) Chapter 49 Confessing to the Holy Office of the Inquisition, Bahia, Brazil (1592 and 1618) Chapter 50 Francisco de Avila's Christmas Eve Sermon (1646) Chapter 51 The Witness Francisco Poma y Altas Caldeas of San Pedro de Acas, Cajatambo, Peru (1657) Chapter 52 Crossing and Dome of the Rosary Chapel, Church of Santo Domingo, Puebla, Mexico (1632-1690) (Illustrations and Text) Chapter 53 Two Paintings of A Corpus Christi Procession in Cusco, Peru (ca. 1674-1680) (Illustrations and Text) Chapter 54 A Black Irmandade in Bahia, Brazil (1699) Part 55 IV: Iberian Rules and American Practices in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 56 "As for the Spaniard, their time is up... I am the owner of these lands and the son of the True God," Jauja, Peru. 1742-1752 Chapter 57 Nicolos Enguir+-'s Letter to the Governor of Buenos Aires (1753) Chapter 58 Jose de Guivez's Decrees for the King's Subjects in Mexico (1769, 1778) Chapter 59 The Foundation of Nuestra Seoora de Guadalupe de los Morenos de Amapa, Mexico (1769) Chapter 60 Concolorcorvo Engages the Postal Inspector about Indian Affairs, Lima, Peru (1776) Chapter 61 Taming the Wilderness, Minas Gerais, Brazil (1769) Chapter 62 Thanking Saint Anne - An Ex-Voto from Minas Gerais, Brazil (1755) (Illustrations and Text) Chapter 63 Jeremiah in the Stocks - Baroque Art from the Gold Fields of Minas Gerais, Brazil (ca. 1770s) (Illustrations and Text) Chapter 64 Two Castas Paintings from Eighteenth-Century Mexico (Illustrations and Text) Chapter 65 Religion and the State Conjoined: Discourses on the Ten Commandments by Juan Francisco Dominguez, Mexico (1805) Chapter 66 Brazilian Slaves Who Married (1811) Chapter 67 Two Brazilian Wills (1793 and 1823) Chapter 68 Late Eighteenth-Century Inscriptions on Fountains and Monuments in Mexico City (Illustrations and Text) Chapter 69 T+-pac Amaru I, Remembered (Eighteenth century) (Illustration and Text) Chapter 70 "America Nursing Spanish Noble Boys," Peru (ca. 1770s) (Illustration and Text) Chapter 71 Jose Maria Morelos's "Sentiments of the Nation," Chilpancingo, Mexico (1813) Chapter 72 The Argentine Declaration of Independence, San Miguel de Tucuman (1816) Chapter 73 The Brazilian Constitution and the Church (1824) Chapter 74 Glossary Chapter 75 Notes on Selections and Sources Chapter 76 Index