Search Results for baptism

...Sarah Cline Although information on baptism (and sometimes Christian marriage) is given in the individual household listings, it is not found in the final summaries, apparently because it has no economic significance. The summaries indicate only the numbers of people in different civil...

...Lisette Varón-Carvajal Baptism through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire . By Martha Few , Zeb Tortorici , and Adam Warren . Latin American Originals . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2020 . Map. Figures. Notes...

...: Baptism by Fire and Spirit . By Flora Cornelia Butler . Cranbury, New Jersey , 1976 . Associated University Presses . Diagrams. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 288 . Cloth. $13.50 . ...

...David M. Stark Abstract This study examines godparent selection patterns by the parents of 632 slaves baptized in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, from 1735 to 1772. The article broadens our understanding of baptismal sponsorship by using family reconstitution to re-create demographic patterns of behavior...

... of Francisco de Toledo, ordinances and law relied on chronological age to standardize the time frame for tribute obligations among male Andeans as between 18 and 50 years old, and this standardization shaped Andeans' life experiences. By the late sixteenth century, previous censuses and baptism records helped...

..., and administrators in Brazil privileged paper evidence as proof of legal freedom. Freedom letters, last wills and testaments, baptism records—these were the materials that reproduced the law in the lives of colonial subjects and that authorities legitimated as evidence of legal freedom. 3 With no archive...

... to these experiences in exile. The register reveals the names and familial lineages of some Afro-Veracruzanas but not of any abducted men. The latter rarely surface in French religious documents, which privileged the stolen women's marriages and their children's baptisms. A close reading of the Code Noir of 1685...

... to apply the method developed by French demographers (particularly Fleury and Henry) to analyze vital statistics. The Frenchmen made note cards for each baptism, marriage and death; by careful cross-indexing, they reestablished the families, which permitted a better analysis of fertility and mortality...

... and not be brought to church. He thought that the high infant mortality might be reduced if the journey to the hacienda chapel were eliminated. His signed Auto , dated June 18, 1773, written on one of his official visits to Bocanegra hacienda, is found in the Bocanegra baptismal book cited above, AGNL, Cía. 83, ff...

... and continuing through almost the end of the nineteenth century. Many also offer insights into African history. Catholic parish registers record data on African baptisms, marriages, and burials. In addition to providing critical demographic statistics on the African populations in the Americas, these records...

... their acquisition of Iberian language skills and embrace of Catholicism. This process was facilitated by African intermediaries, who served as interpreters or godparents for enslaved captives at the time of their baptism. Africans and their descendants actively participated in the colonization of the Spanish...

... a postmortem cesarean section was carried out. The order was meant to assure that living fetuses received baptism (which the Roman Catholic church considered an indispensable requirement for salvation) and to save them from being buried inside their mothers. 1 At the time, European monarchs generally were...

... is a good answer to these charges. The heart of his sources are the marriage and baptismal records for Santiago’s four colonial parishes. Lutz pioneered the use of these valuable archives in his 1976 dissertation. Now, in the 1990s, he deftly combines careful quantitative analysis with slices of family...

... to the often-neglected Tarascan population—make this book essential for students of New World marriage practices and early Spanish-Indian interactions. In Mexico, Christian marriage was introduced later and more slowly than baptism. But as Pierre Ragon argues, the rules governing Christian marriage altered...

... the course of women’s lives from birth to death, but this broad scope means that many of the author’s conclusions can be considered tentative at best. A chapter on girls in Santa Fe, for example, discusses baptismal rites, naming practices, population growth, household composition, and the work...

... requesting more thorough documentation of petitioners’ actual natal and baptismal status and increasingly turned down the applications by the children of priests and adulterous parents on moral grounds. Their incipient attempts to discourage promiscuity by suggesting that parents automatically legitimate...

...-Mexicans during the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Using records of confraternities in Mexico City, Valladolid, and Parral along with wills and baptismal data from the same cities, she has traced the colonial identity of Africans and their Afro-Mexican descendants through some three centuries, from...

...-year period). The second half of the book focuses on more quotidian matters pertaining to foundational teachings and the administration of sacraments. Chapter 3 provides samples of instructions on baptism for the Nahua by three influential Franciscans (Alonso de Molina, Andrés de Olmos, and Juan...

..., there was only one manumission of a child at baptism and there were no cases where the slaveowner identified himself as the godfather, padrino , of the freedman. Spanish law did provide some protection for slaves who sought freedom, but in only 34 cases in Buenos Aires did civil authorities intervene on behalf...

... on the regular introduction of new slaves via the slave trade. Using baptismal records to work around gaps in shipping evidence, he demonstrates in chapter 3 that the majority of slaves baptized on the island were baptized as infants, which indicates that the slave trade was a minor source of the island's...