In Chapter 3 I argue that the convent represented a distinctive space of enslavement in Puebla. This chapter suggests that nunneries were not immune to urban slaveownership because nuns' families were often slaveholders of the highest degree. By focusing on the notarial documents produced by nuns and novices, I demonstrate that slavery was a cultural expectation among black-veiled nuns and aspiring novices whose families owned sugar plantations, textile mills or elite residences. In Puebla, the Limpia Concepción, San Jerónimo, Santísima Trinidad, and Santa Catalina de Sena convents concentrated the largest number of enslaves servants among female religious institutions. Other more austere orders, such as the Discalced Carmelites, also held enslaved domestics, but considerably fewer in number. The age and gender of the enslaved was of paramount importance in these spaces. Boys and girls could remain in the convent until the age of 7, but male children were gradually forced out. Despite these gendered restrictions, convents (as slaveholding corporations) and their attendant families attempted to retain male and female slaves for their wage labor well into the early 18th century.