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![Violent Delights, Violent Ends Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias [Audiobook]](https://i122.fastpic.org/big/2024/0107/2f/2cd368fc73520f83d6096e679f75a72f.jpeg) Free Download Nicole von Germeten, Angela Juarez (Narrator), "Violent Delights, Violent Ends: Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias" English | ASIN: B0CPZP3FDT | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~12:11:00 | 355 MB This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the listener beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city. Cartagena was an important Spanish port and the site of an Inquisition high court, a slave market, a leper colony, a military base, and a prison colony-colonial institutions that imposed order by enforcing Catholicism, cultural and religious boundaries, and prevailing race and gender hierarchies. The city was also simmering with illegal activity, from contraband trade to prostitution to heretical religious practices. 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