Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic
by
Victor Uribe-Uran
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
One night in December 1800, in the distant mission outpost of San Antonio in northern Mexico, Eulalia Californio and her lover Primo plotted the murder of her abusive husband. While the victim was sleeping, Prio and his brother tied a rope around Juan Californio's neck. One of them sat on his body...