Los libros de cuentas de Miguel Vallejo: el estudio de una fuente colonial (Chile 1758-1783)

Abstract

Mixed within the boxes of the colonial judicial records from the district of Puchacay, stored in the Chilean Nacional Archive are four little books that contain the personal accounts of a colonial hacienda. These accounts, that cover more than five years, permit us to see and analyze the colonial world from a scale much smaller than we normal do, by focusing on the hacienda and its workers. We present here these four books and summarize their contents and the new information that we can get from them.