Chapter 1 “For the Riches of Its Souls”: The Society of Jesus in Antigua California

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Gender and Public Space in the Nineteenth-century Californias 1
5. Part I Constructing Space
6. Chapter 1 “For the Riches of Its Souls”: The Society of Jesus in Antigua California 19
7. Chapter 2 “To Teach the Natives Love and Loyalty toward the Spanish Monarch”: The Order of the Predicants of Santo Domingo in Baja California 37
8. Chapter 3 “[For Its] Very Large and Fine Harbor”: The Franciscans of the College of San Fernando in Alta California 54
9. Part II Negotiating Space
10. Chapter 4 Bárbara Gandiaga: Race and Agency at Mission Santo Tomás 77
11. Chapter 5 Eulalia Callis: Privilege and Power in the Colonial Californias 93
12. Chapter 6 Eulalia Pérez: Gender and Labor in the Spanish Frontier 111
13. Conclusion: Women in the Public Missions of the Californias 131
14. Appendix I-A. Interrogatorio de Bárbara Gandiaga sobre la muerte del Padre Eudaldo Surroca, misionero de la Misión de Santo Tomás en la Antigua California 134
15. Appendix I-B Bárbara Gandiaga’s Interrogation Regarding the Death of Padre Eudaldo Surroca, Missionary at Mission Santo Tomás, Baja California 138
16. Appendix I-C Interrogatorio de Bárbara Gandiaga sobre la muerte del Padre Miguel López, misionero de la Misión de Santo Tomás en la Antigua California 142
17. Appendix I-D Bárbara Gandiaga’s Interrogation Regarding the Death of Padre Miguel López, Missionary at Santo Tomás Mission, Baja California 144
18. Appendix II-A Instancia de Da. Eulalia Callis, muger de Don Pedro Fages, Governador de Californias, sobre que se le oyga en justicia, y redima de la opresión que padece 146
19. Appendix II-B Petition by Doña Eulalia Callis, Wife of Don Pedro Fages, Governor of the Californias, That Her Case Be Heard 148
20. Appendix III-A Una vieja y sus recuerdos, dictados por Doña Eulalia Pérez que vive en la Misión de San Gabriel a la edad avanzada de 139 años, a D. Thomas Savage para la Bancroft Library, 1877 150
21. Appendix III-B An Old Woman and Her Recollections, Dictated by Doña Eulalia Pérez, Who Lives at Mission San Gabriel at the Advanced Age of 139 Years, to D. Thomas Savage for the Bancroft Library, 1877 160
22. Notes 171
23. Bibliography 203
24. Index 221