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Sixteenth-Century La Española: Glimpses of the First Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas
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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 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 1518, the Governor of Santo Domingo proposed a triangular trade among La Española, Spain and West Africa
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Household slaves of Captain Gerónimo Agüero Bardecí in Santo Domingo, 1605
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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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Comments by a colonial official of La Española on the need for enslaved Black labor around 1568-1572
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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
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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
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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
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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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