Introduction: Children of the empire / by Ondina E. González -- Up and out : children in Portugal and the empire (1500-1800) / by Isabel dos Guimarães Sá -- "Not all the orphans really are" : the diversity of Seville's juvenile charity wards during the long eighteenth century / by Valentina Tikoff -- Growing up Indian: migration, labor, and life in Lima (1570-1640) / by Teresa C. Vergara -- Ursula : the life and times of an aristocratic girl in Santiago, Chile (1666-1678) / by Jorge Rojas Flores -- Consuming interests : the response to abandoned children in colonial Havana / by Ondina E. González -- The church, the state, and the abandoned : expósitos in late eighteenth-century Havana / by Ann Twinam -- Slavery and childhood in Brazil (1550-1888) / by Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof -- Like a servant or like a son? : circulating children in northwestern Mexico (1790-1850) / by Laura Shelton -- Conclusion: "The little hiders" and other reflections on the history of children in imperial Iberoamerica / by Bianca Premo