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Sixteenth-Century La Española: Glimpses of the First Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas
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Enslaved Blacks brought to La Española began to resist slavery by running away practically from the beginning of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Household slaves of Captain Gerónimo Agüero Bardecí in Santo Domingo, 1605
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In 1518, the Governor of Santo Domingo proposed a triangular trade among La Española, Spain and West Africa
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In 1519 in La Española, some enslaved Blacks owned by a politically powerful master were able to literally get away with murder
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In 1553 Miguel de Torquemada, a young mulatto from Santo Domingo residing temporarily in Seville, Spain, requested royal permission to return to Santo Domingo
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In 1553, residents of Santo Domingo still remembered how Black maroon leader Sebastián Lemba’s head was exhibited in the city’s public square
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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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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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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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Maroon and rebel Black slaves in La Española were a concern for residents of the city of Santo Domingo in the mid-1540s
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