Life Story: Malintzin (La Malinche) (ca. 1500-1529)
The story of the enslaved Native woman who acted as the primary interpreter for Hernan Cortés during his conquest of the Aztec Empire.
The story of the enslaved Native woman who acted as the primary interpreter for Hernan Cortés during his conquest of the Aztec Empire.
These three documents chronicle the efforts of enslaved woman Mayken van Angola to secure her freedom from the Dutch West India Company after thirty-four years of servitude.
Excerpts from the French legal code governing enslaved people that deal specifically with enslaved women and reproduction.
This record of the slaving voyage of the English ship "James" contains records of women and girls who endured the brutalities of the Middle Passage.
This image of a mortar and pestle evokes and illustrates the agricultural techniques brought to the English colonies by enslaved women.
The Virginia colony laws collected here demonstrate how the colonial government used legislation about women to shore up race-based slavery.