Investigates accounts of a 1612 Black uprising in Mexico City as well as their reception. The essay explores both the Spanish account of the event—excavating how Black male bodies were coded as predisposed to the rape of white women—and a Nahuatl account of the same event, which reflects upon the effects of the Spanish gaze upon Black bodies. It goes on to parse the slippages in translation, with respect to the Nahuatl account, which tend to reinscribe colonial categories of knowledge. The work considers discussions in the study of slavery, freedom, gender, Blackness, indigeneity, and colonialism.