Somewhere between 1497 and 1501, a Black woman in the early village of Santo Domingo established the first hospital-like healing facility of the Americas
Title
Somewhere between 1497 and 1501, a Black woman in the early village of Santo Domingo established the first hospital-like healing facility of the Americas
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
1696 - Oct 20
Oct. 20, 1696
Rights
Ministerio de Cultura, Educación y Deporte, Spain
Format
Hand-written manuscript on paper
Identifier
DSI0125
Coverage
16th Century
Seville
Collection
Citation
“Somewhere between 1497 and 1501, a Black woman in the early village of Santo Domingo established the first hospital-like healing facility of the Americas,” Sixteenth-Century La Española: Glimpses of the First Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas, accessed December 22, 2024, https://dsi.ccnydigitalscholarship.org/dsi-blacks-in-america/items/show/125.