Danielle Terrazas Williams – ‘The escaped slaves stated that they could not return’: Maroons, Jesuits, and the Risk of Free Will

Danielle Terrazas Williams is Associate Professor of History of the Global South at the University of Leeds. She is a specialist in the history of colonial Latin America with an interest in global networks and her research has specifically focused on the social and legal histories of African-descended people in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico. Her publications include the acclaimed monograph The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico (Yale UP, 2022). Her new book project is about the Society of Jesus and its role in early modern governance and religious acculturation in Mexico.