Inquisition's Gambit

A demonstration of how the Spanish Inquisition's property confiscations created a racialized economic order in colonial Cartagena de IndiasIn 1632, in the port city of Cartagena de Indias in what is now Colombia, officials of the Spanish Inquisition, having recently arrived to take up their posts, arrested Teodora de Salcedo and fifteen other women of African descent who had once been enslaved, ea...