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Sixteenth-Century La Española: Glimpses of the First Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas
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The authorities of Santo Domingo auctioned the cargo of enslaved Blacks from a Portuguese ship that had arrived without a license in 1555
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A Portuguese ship arrived without a license at the port of Santo Domingo in 1555 and the local authorities seized its cargo of enslaved Africans
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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 1553, residents of Santo Domingo still remembered how Black maroon leader Sebastián Lemba’s head was exhibited in the city’s public square
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Maroon and rebel Black slaves in La Española were a concern for residents of the city of Santo Domingo in the mid-1540s
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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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Around 1530 in Santo Domingo, a female Black slave was burned at the stake, accused of poisoning her female master
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The Slaves’ Rebellion of the Christmas of 1521 in La Española was first mentioned in the ordinances about Blacks of January 6, 1522
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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
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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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