The Voice Behind Cortés's Conquest
Colonial Americas

The Voice Behind Cortés's Conquest

Before Hernán Cortés could conquer Mexico, he needed someone who could speak—and that someone was a twenty-year-old enslaved woman named Malintzin, without whom the whole enterprise collapses.

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