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The agreement prohibited the residence in the colony of individuals &#8220;banished&#8221; from the Spanish kingdoms and those who had been &#8220;Jews or Moors or Reconciled&#8221;<\/strong><br \/><strong>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pares.mcu.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PARES, Portal de Archivos Espa\u00f1oles, Archivo General de Indias,INDIFERENTE,418,L.1 &#8211; 59 \u2013\u00a0Imagen N\u00fam: 58 \/ 378, fol. 34v.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b353e6d elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"b353e6d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Manuscript-004.pdf\"\n        width=\"100%\" height=\"600px\" style=\"border:none;\"\n        title=\"Facsimile of the 1501 Arriaga settlement agreement \u2014 Manuscript 004\">\n  Your browser can't display this embedded PDF.\n<\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Manuscript-004.pdf\"\n      target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download the manuscript facsimile (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\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-1095421822\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-1095421822\" data-tab-index=\"2\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 2;\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-adfadc0 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"adfadc0\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18f7965 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"18f7965\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Paleographic Transcription<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d6fc279 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"d6fc279\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Transcription-004_ojBuUKt.pdf\"\n        width=\"100%\" height=\"600px\" style=\"border:none;\"\n        title=\"Paleographic transcription \u2014 Manuscript 004\">\n  Your browser can't display this embedded PDF.\n<\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Transcription-004_ojBuUKt.pdf\"\n      target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download the paleographic transcription (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\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-1095421823\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-1095421823\" data-tab-index=\"3\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 3;\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-703a6c1 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"703a6c1\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-93601f3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"93601f3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">English Translation<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-26b2930 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"26b2930\" 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-c692b12 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c692b12\" 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:\u00a0 1501, September 5<\/strong><br \/><strong>Theme: Agreement between the Crown and citizen Luis de Arriaga to lead settler expedition into La Espa\u00f1ola<\/strong><br \/><strong>Source: Archivo General de Indias,INDIFERENTE,418,L.1 &#8211; 59 &#8211; Image Number: 58 \/ 378, fol. 34v.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><br \/><\/p><table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"><tbody><tr><td valign=\"top\" width=\"113\"><p>[fo. 34v.]<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/td><td valign=\"top\" width=\"22\"><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>r<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>r<\/p><\/td><td colspan=\"3\" valign=\"top\" width=\"551\"><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Agreement with Luis de Arriaga\/<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The King and the Queen\/<\/p><p>\u00a0What was agreed, as per our mandate, with Luis de Arriaga, denizen of the city of Seville, by himself and on behalf of the others that will be mentioned below, on what he asks for in the Indies is the following\/<\/p><p>First, have the said Luis de Arriaga bring two hundred\/<br \/>residents and more along with their wives and homes to settle\/<br \/>and be settled in the island of La Espa\u00f1ola and stay and reside\/<br \/>and have some of us serve there without stipend\/<br \/>and do and enforce that what our governor now\/<br \/>or then, orders on [our?] [behalf?]. If some \/<br \/>of the Christians present now or later in the \/<br \/>said island did not obey our orders or if some \/<br \/>of the provinces rebelled or some Indians \/<br \/>revolted against our service, there will be war on \/<br \/>their coastlines\/.<\/p><p>[\u2026]<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\" valign=\"top\" width=\"181\"><p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 13 \/<\/p><p>That no one banished from these Kingdoms \/\u00a0 neither Jews or moors nor anybody reconciled \/ should be allowed to live in those villages \/<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/td><td valign=\"top\" width=\"20\"><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/td><td valign=\"top\" width=\"486\"><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Item about no one and nobody being allowed to live nor reside those that\/<br \/>from our kingdoms were banished \/<br \/>or those that lived in any of the villages and places inhabited by the latter\/<br \/>Jews moors, or those reconciled for the honor [<em>in between lines<\/em>: of]\u00a0the said residents\/\u00a0<\/p><p>[\u2026]<br \/><br \/><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\" valign=\"top\" width=\"181\"><p>[fo. 35v.]<\/p><\/td><td valign=\"top\" width=\"20\"><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/td><td valign=\"top\" width=\"486\"><p>[\u2026] done in Granada on the fifth day of September in the year Fifteen and One, I the King, I the Queen as mandated by the King and the Queen. Gaspar de Grizio\/<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\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-1095421824\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-1095421824\" data-tab-index=\"4\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 4;\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-99a86af e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"99a86af\" 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-d061be5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d061be5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Historical Commentary<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-06123eb e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"06123eb\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-177d491 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"177d491\" 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:\u00a0 1501, September 5.\u00a0 Granada, Spain.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Theme: Agreement between the Crown and citizen Luis de Arriaga to lead settler expedition into\u00a0La Espa\u00f1ola. The agreement prohibited the residence in the colony of individuals &#8220;banished&#8221; from the Spanish kingdoms and those who had been &#8220;Jews or Moors or Reconciled&#8221;<\/strong><br \/><strong>Source: PARES, Portal de Archivos Espa\u00f1oles, Archivo General de Indias,INDIFERENTE,418,L.1 &#8211; 59 \u2013\u00a0Imagen N\u00fam: 58 \/ 378, fol. 34v.<\/strong><\/p><p>In the text of this\u00a0<em>capitulaci\u00f3n<\/em>\u00a0or agreement between the Spanish Crown and a Luis de Arriaga of Seville authorizing the latter to organize a settlers\u2019 expedition, in this case to populate the island of La Espa\u00f1ola with two hundred denizens or more and their wives at the beginning of the sixteenth century, it is declared that, aside from the settlers being obliged to launch war against anyone of any social background engaged in disobeying the Crown\u2019s orders or rebelling against serving the Crown, \u201cno person or persons from among the ones that were banished from these our kingdoms or had been Jews or Moors or Reconciled may be allowed to live or reside in any of the said villages or places that may have been settled by the above mentioned ones, in respect for said denizens.\u201d<\/p><p>The Spanish Crown was thus expressing a concern and establishing a prohibition about the potential arrival into its new colonies, such as La Espa\u00f1ola, of the non-Christian or non-Catholic, religiously differentiated ethnic groups mentioned.\u00a0 It is a concern rather similar to the one it expressed eleven days later in another, much better-known document also issued from Granada, but in which an explicit reference was made to those of Black race for the first time, indicating that enslaved Blacks could be allowed into La Espa\u00f1ola provided they were Christianized.<\/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\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manuscript 004 \u2014 1501 Crown Agreement with Luis de Arriaga to Settle La Espa\u00f1ola (Barring Jews, Moors &amp; Reconciled) Manuscript Transcription Translation Commentary The Manuscript (Facsimile &amp; Archival Source) Date:\u00a0 1501, September 5.\u00a0 Granada, SpainTheme: Agreement between the Crown and citizen Luis de Arriaga to lead settler expedition into\u00a0La Espa\u00f1ola. 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