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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

1540

In 1553, residents of Santo Domingo still remembered how Black maroon leader Sebastián Lemba’s head was exhibited in the city’s public square

1533

In 1553 Miguel de Torquemada, a young mulatto from Santo Domingo residing temporarily in Seville, Spain, requested royal permission to return to Santo Domingo

Dec. 5, 1553

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

1555

The authorities of Santo Domingo auctioned the cargo of enslaved Blacks from a Portuguese ship that had arrived without a license in 1555

1555

The authorities of Santo Domingo auctioned the cargo of enslaved Blacks from a Portuguese ship that had arrived without a license in 1555

1555

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

1556

In 1558 Santo Domingo, the local prison kept slave and non-slave, Black and non-Black, men and women detainees within the same building complex

1558

Comments by a colonial official of La Española on the need for enslaved Black labor around 1568-1572

1568-1572

Auction of enslaved Africans seized by Santo Domingo’s colonial authorities in 1575 from a Portuguese ship

1575