Volume I: Charting Destinies: Negotiating Indio-Chinio Identity. Volume II: The Costs of Evanglelization: Missionaries and the Galleons. Volume III: “Condenas a Las Islas Filipino”: Convict Deportation and the Galleons. Volume IV: The Contrabandistas: Defenders of “Free Trade” on the Manila-Acapulco Galleons. Volume V: Health, History, and the High Seas. *** This multi-volume work presents one hundred archival documents from the Archivo General de la Nacion in Mexico, transcribed, translated, and annotated. Beyond empire and trade, it reveals how ordinary people experienced life on a global scale. The voices of Filipino workers, missionaries, prisoners, smugglers, and sailors battling illness at sea, some long silenced, now take center stage as they offer a richer understanding of the longest maritime trade route in history.