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</script>An almost total lack of iconography One of the most challenging, and somewhat frustrating, circumstances in the study, research, and learning about the earliest Black peoples that inhabited the colony of La Española during the centuries of modernity is the near-total lack of known visual records or representations of that population produced at the time they lived. […]https://firstblacks.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/03084004.jpg10131536