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

Title

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

Subject

Early colonial Santo Domingo

Description

Manuscript

Source

España. Ministerio de Cultura, Archivo General de Indias|CUNY Dominican Studies Institute
España. Ministerio de Cultura, Archivo General de Indias

Date

Sept. 1505
Sept. 1505

Rights

Ministerio de Cultura, Educación y Deporte, Spain

Format

Hand-written manuscript on paper

Identifier

DSI0128

Coverage

16th Century
Seville

Files

22194227-Panel-5.jpg

Collection

Citation

“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,” Sixteenth-Century La Española: Glimpses of the First Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas, accessed April 18, 2024, https://ccnydigitalscholarship.org/dsi-blacks-in-america/items/show/128.