By 1505 the King of Spain was planning to send more enslaved Blacks to La Española, hoping they would work the mines under a promise of future manumission
Title
By 1505 the King of Spain was planning to send more enslaved Blacks to La Española, hoping they would work the mines under a promise of future manumission
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
Sept. 1505
Sept. 1505
Rights
Ministerio de Cultura, Educación y Deporte, Spain
Format
Hand-written manuscript on paper
Identifier
DSI0128
Coverage
16th Century
Seville
Collection
Citation
“By 1505 the King of Spain was planning to send more enslaved Blacks to La Española, hoping they would work the mines under a promise of future manumission,” Sixteenth-Century La Española: Glimpses of the First Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas, accessed September 29, 2024, https://dsi.ccnydigitalscholarship.org/dsi-blacks-in-america/items/show/128.