Testimony on how a Black slave got the tips of some of his toes severed as punishment after being convicted of a crime in 1519 Santo Domingo

Title

Testimony on how a Black slave got the tips of some of his toes severed as punishment after being convicted of a crime in 1519 Santo Domingo

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

1519
1519

Rights

Ministerio de Cultura, Educación y Deporte, Spain

Format

Hand-written manuscript on paper

Identifier

DSI0131

Coverage

16th Century
Seville

Files

22194230-Panel-8.jpg

Collection

Citation

“Testimony on how a Black slave got the tips of some of his toes severed as punishment after being convicted of a crime in 1519 Santo Domingo,” Sixteenth-Century La Española: Glimpses of the First Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas, accessed March 28, 2024, https://ccnydigitalscholarship.org/dsi-blacks-in-america/items/show/131.