First Blacks in The Americas

The African Presence in The Dominican Republic

Manuscript No. 011

Date: 1505, November 20.  Segovia, Spain
Theme: License from the Crown to La Española’s colonial treasurer Juan de Joara, authorizing him to take a female Black slave from Spain to La Española
Source: PARES, Portal de Archivos Españoles, Archivo General de Indias,INDIFERENTE,418,L.1,F.187v. – Imagen Núm: 369 / 378

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