An enslaved Black man was called to testify in La Española in 1556 and his depositions were incorporated into the inquiry’s proceedings

Title

An enslaved Black man was called to testify in La Española in 1556 and his depositions were incorporated into the inquiry’s proceedings

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

1556
1556

Rights

Ministerio de Cultura, Educación y Deporte, Spain

Format

Hand-written manuscript on paper

Identifier

DSI0141

Coverage

16th Century
Seville

Files

22194249-Panel-18.jpg

Collection

Citation

“An enslaved Black man was called to testify in La Española in 1556 and his depositions were incorporated into the inquiry’s proceedings,” Sixteenth-Century La Española: Glimpses of the First Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas, accessed April 25, 2024, https://ccnydigitalscholarship.org/dsi-blacks-in-america/items/show/141.