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Sixteenth-Century La Española: Glimpses of the First Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas
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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
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A freed young Black woman from Santo Domingo residing in Seville in 1575 decided to return to the Americas
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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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An enslaved Black man was called to testify in La Española in 1556 and his depositions were incorporated into the inquiry’s proceedings
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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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