Mulatto * Outlaw * Pilgrim * Priest: The Legal Case of Jose Soller, Accused of Impersonating a Pastor and Other Crimes in Seventeenth-century Spain

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In Mulatto * Outlaw * Pilgrim * Priest, John K. Moore, Jr. presents the first in-depth study, critical edition, and scholarly translation of His Majesty’s Representative v. Jose Soller, Mulatto Pilgrim, for Impersonating a Priest and Other Crimes. This legal case dates to the waning days of the Hapsburg Spanish empire and illuminates the discrimination those of black-African ancestry could face-that Soller did face while attempting to pass freely on his pilgrimage from Lisbon to Santiago de Compostela and beyond.

This bilingual edition and study of the criminal trial against Soller is important for reconstructing his journey and for revealing at least in part the de facto and de jure treatment of mulattos in the early-modern Iberian Atlantic World.