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Please download the PDF to view it: <a href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Transcription-006_lVLTrgt.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-373788033\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-373788033\" data-tab-index=\"3\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 3;\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e73708 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"8e73708\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-08501c6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"08501c6\" 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\u00a0 1518, March 2.\u00a0 Valladolid.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Theme: License by the Spanish Crown authorizing colonial treasury official of Santo Domingo\u00a0Crist\u00f3bal Tapia to hire and bring to the colony up to ten technicians of any nationality to build a sugar mill, as well as fifteen male black slaves and two female black slaves.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Source: PARES, Portal de Archivos Espa\u00f1oles\u2014Archivo General de Indias, INDIFERENTE,\u00a0419, L.7, F.697V-698R\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><br \/><\/p><table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"><tbody><tr><td valign=\"top\" width=\"169\">[fo. 697v.]\u00a0The said Crist\u00f3bal de\/<br \/>Tapia\/<\/td><td valign=\"top\" width=\"504\">The King\/<br \/><br \/>Since you Cristobal de Tapia, our\u00a0<em>veedor<\/em>\u00a0of the Espa\u00f1ola \/<br \/>island, reported to me that you have \/<br \/>built a sugar mill in the said Espa\u00f1ola island \/<br \/>and because you are in need of some \/<br \/>officials and masters that know how to make the said sugar, \/<br \/>and you are not able to find them native of our kingdoms and dominions,\/<br \/>and according to what has been mandated by us \/<br \/>no foreigner to our kingdoms and dominions \/<br \/>may pass to the set Indies, islands and\u00a0<em>Tierra Firme<\/em>\u00a0\/<br \/>of the ocean sea, you pleaded and begged us \/<br \/>as a favor to grant license and power so that you could \/<br \/>bring [them] from any other nations if not found among our subjects \/<br \/>and natives. And, considering that in building the said mill the said \/<br \/>island receives convenience and profit since other \/<br \/>persons will be encouraged to build similar buildings, \/<br \/>which will be a cause for much ennoblement and peopling \/<br \/>of the said island, I deemed it appropriate, and hereby give \/<br \/>license and power to you the said Crist\u00f3bal de Tapia\/<br \/>and to the person or persons that may have your power, so that \/<br \/>from these kingdoms and from the Canary Islands \/<br \/>you may carry and do carry up to ten sugar making masters \/<br \/>and sugar mill building officials \/<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p>\u00a0<\/p><table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"><tbody><tr><td valign=\"top\" width=\"139\">[fo. 698r.]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a01 [day?]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 r\/\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01 [day?]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 r\/\u00a0<\/td><td valign=\"top\" width=\"499\">if you find them that are our natives, otherwise \/<br \/>from any other nations even if they are foreigners \/<br \/>so that, because of them, neither you nor the set ten masters \/<br \/>may fall or incur any penalty, despite any prohibition and impediment \/<br \/>that may exist on the contrary, for I exempt all of it \/<br \/>pertaining to this, otherwise the mandate remaining \/<br \/>valid and in place. Also I order our officials \/<br \/>of the Casa de la Contrataci\u00f3n de las Indias that reside \/<br \/>in the city of Seville and our \/<br \/>governors and justices of the said Canary Islands \/<br \/>to let and allow the said ten masters to go, \/<br \/>even if, as said before, they were foreigners \/<br \/>with no obstacle or impediment whatsoever \/<br \/>being brought up before them, in spite of them being foreigners, \/<br \/>as it was said, after this\u00a0<em>c\u00e9dula<\/em>\u00a0of mine is registered by our said officials. \/<br \/>Done at Valladolid on the second day of March of the year Fifteen Eighteen. I the King. Authorized by the Secretary Covos. \/<br \/>Signed by the chancellor and the bishop of Burgos \/.\u00a0The said day a signed and authorized letter by the aforementioned \/<br \/>was sent where your highness grants license to \/<br \/>the said Crist\u00f3bal de Tapia so that he may pass \/<br \/>to the said Espa\u00f1ola island fifteen black male slaves \/<br \/>and two females slaves with the limitation that has been mandated. \/\u00a0On the said day a letter was issued and signed by the said ones \/<br \/>in which your highness grants license to the said Crist\u00f3bal \/<br \/>de Tapia to pass forty silver\u00a0<em>marcos\u00a0<\/em>for the service of his home\/<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\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-373788034\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-373788034\" data-tab-index=\"4\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 4;\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ef5c74a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"ef5c74a\" 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-56fed9a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"56fed9a\" 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\u00a0\u00a0 1518, March 2.\u00a0 Valladolid.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Theme: License by the Spanish Crown authorizing colonial treasury official Crist\u00f3bal Tapia to hire and bring\u00a0to the colony up to ten technicians of any nationality to build a sugar mill, as well as fifteen male black slaves and two female black slaves.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Source: PARES, Portal de Archivos Espa\u00f1oles\u2014Archivo General de Indias,INDIFERENTE,\u00a0419, L.7, L.7 &#8211; 91 &#8211; Imagen N\u00fam: 86 \/ 357, F.697V-698R<\/strong><\/p><p>During the second half of the 1510s some of the Spanish settlers of La Espa\u00f1ola began experimenting with cane-sugar manufacturing as a profit-making business alternative to the gold mining that had been prevalent during prior decades. The plantation-based cane sugar production business was by then a full-fledged practice in the Canary Islands and the Madeira Islands. The Spanish Crown, very concerned about the need to keep settlers in the colony, actively supported the enterprise in La Espa\u00f1ola, through tax exemptions and cash loans to the new entrepreneurs.<\/p><p>The brothers Crist\u00f3bal and Francisco Tapia are two colonists whose names come up in historical scholarship among the pioneers of commercial sugar-making in the colony, cited early on by such chroniclers of the conquest and\u00a0 colonization process as Gonzalo Fern\u00e1ndez de Oviedo. The document at hand has the interesting feature of being a primary source that shows some important aspects of the attempt by one of the Tapias to launch and exploit this business in La Espa\u00f1ola. They asked\u00a0 for permission from the Crown to import two essential human resources for the enterprise: experts in the treatment of the canes\u2019 juice for transforming it into sugar (\u201cmaestros de azucar\u201d or master sugar overseers), on the one hand, and field hands in charge of the planting, growing, harvesting, cutting, milling, boiling, stirring, molding and crystallizing\u00a0 of the juice and final pulverizing of the crystals. Following the precedent of the sugar cane business in the Canaries and the Madeiras, the preferred type of workers for the sugar-cane estates, called\u00a0<em>ingenios\u00a0<\/em>(\u201cmachines\u201d) at the time, were enslaved black Africans.<\/p><p>Crist\u00f3bal Tapia had petitioned the Crown indicating that it was hard for him to find the right technicians within the Iberian territories and he asked for permission to bring them from wherever he could find them and from any nationality. He seems to have also asked for a license to bring fifteen enslaved blacks and two female slaves to La Espa\u00f1ola, most probably to work in the future sugar mill.\u00a0<\/p><p>The Crown granted Tapia&#8217;s request, who was part of the Crown\u2019s colonial bureaucracy in Santo Domingo as\u00a0<em>veedor<\/em>\u00a0or manager of the king\u2019s properties, goods and commodities in the colony, and a license to introduce the said slaves was granted the same day as the permission to hire and import non-Spanish technicians into La Espa\u00f1ola, a favor whose exceptionality status with regard to the rules issued by the Crown in the recent past was explicitly mentioned in the wording of the relevant royal\u00a0<em>licencia<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p><p>License was also granted for Tapia\u2019s importing of the requested slaves \u201cwith the limitation that has been ordered,\u201d an allusion to the restriction against the arrival of non-Christians. The manuscript, therefore, is evidence of how many enslaved blacks were legally shipped to La Espa\u00f1ola to toil in the grueling work of the sugar-making agribusness from its early beginnings in the colony.<\/p>\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<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-373788035\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-373788035\" data-tab-index=\"5\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 5;\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-015f947 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"015f947\" 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-85dfab7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"85dfab7\" 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=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Manuscript-Transcription-006.pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600px\" style=\"border: none;\">\n    This browser does not support PDFs. 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