Write a well-developed short essay in which you analyze the importance of one of the following primary sources or scholarly accounts (most are from Wood and Alexander, Problems in Modern Latin American History, some are in Canvas)
*“A Cuban Slave’s Testimony” by Esteban Montejo (Primary Source in Wood & Alexander pp. 55-60)
*“Day on a Coffee Plantation” by Stanley Stein (scholarly account in Wood & Alexander pp. 60-63)
*“Black Wet Nurses” edited by Robert Conrad (primary source in Wood & Alexander pp. 66-68; I also have a photograph of one of these Black Wet Nurses in the PPT)
*“Becoming ‘Legally White’ in Colonial Venezuela” (primary source in Canvas).
- “On Men’s Hypocrisy” by Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz (primary source in Canvas)
*The “Casta” Paintings (by Miguel Cabrera in the early 1760s, primary sources in Canvas in the PPT “Colonial Legacies III”)
- “War to the Death” by Simón Bolívar (primary source in Wood & Alexander pp. 32-33)
- “The Vision of Father Morelos” by Enrique Krauze (this is the correct spelling; scholarly account in Wood & Alexander pp. 34-37 with primary sources-speeches and principles for the future constitution- inside)
- “What Independence Meant for Women” by Sarah Chambers (scholarly account in Wood & Alexander pp. 37-41)