An enslaved Black man was called to testify in La Española in 1556 and his depositions were incorporated into the inquiry’s proceedings
Title
An enslaved Black man was called to testify in La Española in 1556 and his depositions were incorporated into the inquiry’s proceedings
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
1556
1556
Rights
Ministerio de Cultura, Educación y Deporte, Spain
Format
Hand-written manuscript on paper
Identifier
DSI0141
Coverage
16th Century
Seville
Collection
Citation
“An enslaved Black man was called to testify in La Española in 1556 and his depositions were incorporated into the inquiry’s proceedings,” Sixteenth-Century La Española: Glimpses of the First Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas, accessed November 12, 2024, https://dsi.ccnydigitalscholarship.org/dsi-blacks-in-america/items/show/141.