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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

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

A freed young Black woman from Santo Domingo residing in Seville in 1575 decided to return to the Americas

1575, Nov. 16

In 1568, after serving two female masters for over a decade in Seville, two young female Black slaves born in Santo Domingo were granted freedom by their second master

Nov. 27, 1568

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

1594

Household slaves of Captain Gerónimo Agüero Bardecí in Santo Domingo, 1605

1605

In 1555, a slave ship arrived in Santo Domingo loaded with branded sugar crates and branded Black Africans

1555

Colonial sugar mill with vertical wooden rolls’ machinery