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| #1860062 in Books | Arte Publico Pr | 2012-09-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.40 x1.10 x5.50l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 320 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A fresh view of the New World in the late 1600's - particularly Boston from the eyes of an outsider and woman of color.|By Heather P. Emerson|A fascinating look at a popular time and place in history but from a very different point of view. The protagonist was a free woman in Mexico, where she lived by the caste system of her culture, Her capture, rape and enslavement by pirate|From Publishers Weekly|A spirited indentured servant gets tangled up in the 17th-century Massachusetts Bay Colony witch hunts in this ambitious historical drama. Halfway through her 15-year indenture at a Mexico City convent, Concepción Benavidez escapes
Born of a Spaniard and a mixed-race woman, young Concepcion Benavidez was apprenticed as a scribe to a convent. At nineteen, she escapes and is captured in the siege of Vera Cruz in 1683. She unexpectedly becomes the property of the Dutch pirate Laurens-Cornille de Graffe, who rapes her repeatedly on the long, deadly journey to the Massachusetts Bay Colony where he will sell his cargo. Realizing the young mestiza has fine penmanship, the pirate promptly sells her when th...
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