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== New Spain’s (New Mexico’s) moral code as dictated by the Spanish Crown in 1752 == | == New Spain’s (New Mexico’s) moral code as dictated by the Spanish Crown in 1752 == | ||
| + | I'm surprised there was such concern about class in New Spain, since it doesn't seem to have existed in quite the same way in the English colonies. I'd also love to read a more precise definition of seduction. The most interesting part of this law is that NOT marrying a woman is a serious offense - if someone has seduced someone and then doesn't marry her, then that apparently does her serious injury, though not him. (I guess he's the one not embarrassed by being turned down, just as her lineage or reputation won't be hurt by marrying someone above her?) I wonder, did lower-class women ever seduce Dukes and Counts? It certainly doesn't seem to have happened enough to be mentioned here, but I guess those native girls were just all over the nobility. | ||
== Laws on Slave Descent in VA and MD, 1662, 1664, 1691, 1692 == | == Laws on Slave Descent in VA and MD, 1662, 1664, 1691, 1692 == | ||
