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Sixteenth-Century La Española: Glimpses of the First Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas
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In 1555, a slave ship arrived in Santo Domingo loaded with branded sugar crates and branded Black Africans
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Household slaves of Captain Gerónimo Agüero Bardecí in Santo Domingo, 1605
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A Black African man sold as a slave by French smugglers visiting La Española’s northern coast in 1594 claimed a right to freedom based on his African social status of nobility
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In 1568, after serving two female masters for over a decade in Seville, two young female Black slaves born in Santo Domingo were granted freedom by their second master
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A freed young Black woman from Santo Domingo residing in Seville in 1575 decided to return to the Americas
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Auction of enslaved Africans seized by Santo Domingo’s colonial authorities in 1575 from a Portuguese ship
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Comments by a colonial official of La Española on the need for enslaved Black labor around 1568-1572
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In 1558 Santo Domingo, the local prison kept slave and non-slave, Black and non-Black, men and women detainees within the same building complex
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An enslaved Black man was called to testify in La Española in 1556 and his depositions were incorporated into the inquiry’s proceedings
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The authorities of Santo Domingo auctioned the cargo of enslaved Blacks from a Portuguese ship that had arrived without a license in 1555
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