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Please download the PDF to view it: <a href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Transcription-037_64yfLvt.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a>.\n<\/iframe>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-2141064123\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-2141064123\" data-tab-index=\"3\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 3;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-b1f117e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b1f117e\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-58e2749 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"58e2749\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Date: 1558, October 8. Santo Domingo City<br \/>Theme: In 1558 Santo Domingo, the local prison kept slave and non-slave, Black and non-Black, men and women detainees within the same building complex<br \/>Source: Archivo General de Indias, Justicia 102B, fo.1550v. CUNY DSI Dominican Colonial Documents Collection.<\/strong><br \/><br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 v Y\u00f1igo Lopez \u00c7amudio, without shackles ___ \/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0Pablos [<em>sic<\/em>],\u00a0<em>mestizo<\/em>, with shackles ___\/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0The said Juan de Triana, with shackles ___\/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0Lope Ortis guard, with shackles ___\/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0Gon\u00e7alo Dias resident of Azua, without shackles \/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0Diego Nu\u00f1ez, no shackles ___\/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0Juana Bi\u00e7ente, female ___\/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0Andrea de Gusman, Mulatto woman ___\/<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -Blacks and Indians &#8211;<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0Antonio, Indian, without shackles ___\/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0Gon\u00e7alo G<em>a<\/em>r<em>\u00e7i<\/em>a, Black, shoemaker, with shackles___\/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0A Black man owned by Elvira Medel, with shackles ___\/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0Pedro, free Black man, for theft, with shackles ___ \/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0A Black man owned by Juan Ximenez of El Cotui, for debt \/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0[<em>Crossed out<\/em>: u] three Black men owned by Pedro Peres, for debt ___\/<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -by the\u00a0<em>alcaldes<\/em>&#8211;<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0Tomas Aleman, for debt ___\/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0Caro de [Ny\u00e7ina?], for debt ___\/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0Alexos Carullo, silversmith, without shackles ___\/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0Merchior [<em>sic<\/em>] Hernandes, for the [half] of silver \/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0B<em>a<\/em>r<em>tolom<\/em><sup>e<\/sup>\u00a0Xuares, for debt ___\/<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0v\u00a0Anton Ximenez, for debt ___ \/<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-2141064124\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-2141064124\" data-tab-index=\"4\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 4;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-c999644 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c999644\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fc5842d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fc5842d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span class=\"Normal__Char\">Date:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1558, October 8. Santo Domingo, La Espa\u00f1ola.\u00a0<br \/>Theme:\u00a0In 1558 Santo Domingo, the local prison kept slave and non-slave, Black and non-<\/span><span class=\"Normal__Char\">Black, men and women detainees within the same building complex\u00a0<br \/><\/span><span class=\"Normal__Char\">Source: Archivo General de Indias, Justicia 102B, fo.1549v.-1552r. CUNY Dominican Studies<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Normal__Char\"><strong>\u00a0Institute Dominican Colonial\u00a0Documents Collection<\/strong><br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"Normal__Char\">There was at least one jail in Santo Domingo during the mid-sixteenth century. In 1558, when the official in charge of the prison was replaced, he produced a report specifying the prisoners and equipment whose control and maintenance he was entrusting and transferring to his successor.<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"Normal__Char\">According to the report, detainees of different sexes, ages, social status, walks of life and legal standing, were kept within the same prison complex, though we do not know yet how much physical proximity there was exactly between each of them and the rest. Men, women, slaves and non-slaves, whites, Blacks, mulattos and mestizos\u00a0are found among the prisoners.\u00a0 Some moved around without any kind of impediment while others had shackles. The prisoners came from remote villages of the colony or from Santo Domingo. 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