Catarina de Monte Sinay was a nun who lived in a convent in Bahia, Brazil for 60 years in the 1700s. She supplemented the convent's income through rentals, lending, baking, and invested the money in the convent. Juan de Morga was a mulatto slave in Mexico in the 1600s who escaped from his brutal owner but was caught and jailed. Gertrudis de Escobar was a 14-year-old mulatta in 1659 who was sold into slavery after being punished for renouncing God. Cristobal Berquer was a priest in Peru in the 1700s who rose in the church ranks despite bad behavior.