Women and Kinship in Spanish East Texas at the End of the Eighteenth Century

Despite scant sources, this presentation recovers the stories of the Spanish-American women in East Texas, especially in the town of Nacogdoches.  The economic desire to extend trade with other people, the metropole’s difficulty of overseeing the village, and the multiple traditions that co-existed on the borderlands influenced the choices they made.    Due to interethnic marriages and relations, the women of Texas participated in an ongoing Spanish expansion that connected Europe and America, resulting in a world that was neither entirely Spanish nor entirely Indigenous.