AskHistorians Podcast Episode 170 - Fugitive Freedom in Colonial Mexico with Bill Taylor
The AskHistorians Podcast · AskHistorians Podcast
March 4, 20211h 14m
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Show Notes
Tyler Alderson talks will Bill Taylor, author of the new book Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico. Taylor pieces together the lives of two men who impersonated priests, and discusses how they fit with the ideal of the vagabundo in popular culture of the time. How and why did they operate on the margins of society, and what does it say about that society?