Sixteenth-Century La Española: Glimpses of the First Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas A Black African man sold as a slave by French smugglers visiting La Española’s northern coast in 1594 claimed a right to freedom based on his African social status of nobility
Title
A Black African man sold as a slave by French smugglers visiting La Española’s northern coast in 1594 claimed a right to freedom based on his African social status of nobility
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
1594
1594
Rights
Ministerio de Cultura, Educación y Deporte, Spain
Format
Hand-written manuscript on paper
Identifier
DSI0147
Coverage
16th Century
Seville
Files
Collection
Citation
“A Black African man sold as a slave by French smugglers visiting La Española’s northern coast in 1594 claimed a right to freedom based on his African social status of nobility,” Sixteenth-Century La Española: Glimpses of the First Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas, accessed April 19, 2024, https://ccnydigitalscholarship.org/dsi-blacks-in-america/items/show/147.