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Sixteenth-Century La Española: Glimpses of the First Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas
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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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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 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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A Portuguese ship arrived without a license at the port of Santo Domingo in 1555 and the local authorities seized its cargo of enslaved Africans
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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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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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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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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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Comments by a colonial official of La Española on the need for enslaved Black labor around 1568-1572
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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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