This document summarizes the struggles of several individuals who lived during colonial times. It describes seven people who faced challenges such as accusations of crimes, illegal enslavement, and difficult lives as slaves: Cristobal Bequer was a priest accused of murder who had to flee for his life; Gutrids de Escobar was illegally sold into slavery; Beatriz de Padilla was accused of seducing and killing men and was born into slavery; Catrina de Monte Sinay was a nun who earned money to improve her convent; Juan de Morga was a slave and priest with a vicious owner, like his slave mother; Rachael Pringle-Polgreen was a slave daughter who later owned her own business with