Translation No. 015
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Date: 1518, January 22. Santo Domingo, La Española
Theme: An early colonial official in La Española stressed the importance of enslaved Blacks as labor force and proposed a triangular trans-Atlantic open trade to supply them to the colony
Source: PARES, Portal de Archivos Españoles, Archivo General de Indias, PATRONATO, 174, R. 8
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[…] It is necessary as well that Black slaves come in, as I / |
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for them [the slaves] to be brought in, so that from this island the vessels depart to Seville, where / And it is very necessary as well, very illustrious lord, that from all the regions of your highness’/ […] |
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to serve your lordship so much that you give me grants. May your magnificent and very illustrious state / |