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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

Manuscript

In 1519 in La Española, some enslaved Blacks owned by a politically powerful master were able to literally get away with murder

Manuscript

In 1518, the Governor of Santo Domingo proposed a triangular trade among La Española, Spain and West Africa

Manuscript

Household slaves of Captain Gerónimo Agüero Bardecí in Santo Domingo, 1605

Manuscript

Enslaved Blacks brought to La Española began to resist slavery by running away practically from the beginning of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Manuscript

Comments by a colonial official of La Española on the need for enslaved Black labor around 1568-1572

Manuscript

Comment by the Real Audiencia on the use of enslaved Black labor in the construction of the main defensive structures of Santo Domingo City, 1538

Manuscript

By 1505 the King of Spain was planning to send more enslaved Blacks to La Española, hoping they would work the mines under a promise of future manumission

Manuscript

By 1501 enslaved Blacks raised in Spain were already seen as a convenient labor force for the colonization of the Americas. Blacks who were not Christianized were banned

Manuscript

Auction of enslaved Africans seized by Santo Domingo’s colonial authorities in 1575 from a Portuguese ship

Manuscript

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