El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, 1777-1848, continued

Drawing of an Exterior View of the Mexican Courthouse in San José, ca.1900
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El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, 1777-1848, continued
Description
The Pueblo’s pobladores, most of whom came with Captain Juan Bautista de Anza’s expedition of 1775-1776, lived under a strict hierarchy or Sistema de Casta (caste system). One person of pure Spanish blood (pureza de sangre) occupied the top rung, with below them the mestizo (mixed Spanish and Indian), the mulatto (mixed African and Indian), then the indio (Native), and lastly the Africans. Initially Pueblo San José included five mulattos and twelve mestizos (one servant, nine soldiers, five pobladores, one male herdsman, and their wives and children).
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B4SV Exhibit Topic One: Slide 006
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Drawing of an Exterior View of the Mexican Courthouse in San José, ca.1900Drawing of an Exterior View of the Mexican Courthouse in San José, ca.1900

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