{"id":3235,"date":"2025-09-21T13:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/?page_id=3235"},"modified":"2025-09-21T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:20:12","slug":"fb-primary-024-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-024-manuscript","title":{"rendered":"Manuscript No. 024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3235\" class=\"elementor elementor-3235\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-95595bc e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"95595bc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-39883d0 e-n-tabs-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-n-tabs\" data-id=\"39883d0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;horizontal_scroll&quot;:&quot;disable&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"nested-tabs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-n-tabs\" data-widget-number=\"60326864\" aria-label=\"Tabs. 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Please download the PDF to view it: <a href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Transcription_024_FJRhR17.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-603268643\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-603268643\" data-tab-index=\"3\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 3;\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-006d707 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"006d707\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cf66974 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cf66974\" 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-1c07661 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1c07661\" 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=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">Date: 1528<\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">, April 6.\u00a0 Madrid, La Espa\u00f1ola.<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">Theme: While the fleeing by enslaved Blacks away from the mines and farms of La Espa\u00f1ola generated<\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">\u00a0great concern to the Spanish Crown, in the colony an acrimonious dispute erupted between the<\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">\u00a0colonial Governor Diego Col\u00f3n and the\u00a0oidores\u00a0of the Audiencia of Santo Domingo about the need\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">for a constable to prosecute the \u201cBlacks\u201d<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">Source:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">Archivo General de Indias, PARES, Portal de Archivos Espa\u00f1oles, Archivo General de Indias,<\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">P<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\"><strong>ATRONATO, 295,No.89.<\/strong><br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">In the noble city of Santo Domingo of this La Espa\u00f1ola island \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">of the Indies of the ocean sea on Tuesday twenty \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">first of the month of July of fifteen twenty \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">eight, before the honorable\u00a0licenciado\u00a0Gaspar de Espinosa \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">and Alonso Zuazo,\u00a0oidores\u00a0of the\u00a0audiencia\u00a0and\u00a0canciller\u00eda\u00a0of his majesty who \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">reside in these parts, and in the presence of me, Diego Caballero, notary of \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">the said royal\u00a0audiencia, appeared present Juan Ruiz, attorney \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">in this city, in the name of and on behalf of the honorable\u00a0do\u00f1a\u00a0Mar\u00eda \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">de Toleto, vicereine of these parts, as guardian and manager \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">of the person and assets of admiral\u00a0don\u00a0Luis Col\u00f3n, her \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">son, viceroy and governor of these parts per his majesty, by \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">virtue of his power presented by her in this royal\u00a0audiencia\u00a0\/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">for certain businesses and lawsuits that in the said name \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">she litigates, and are pending. I, the said notary, certify that a petition \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">was presented and a [\u00a0\u00a0 ]\u00a0c\u00e9dula\u00a0of his majesty, signed of his royal name \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[\u00a0\u00a0 ] by Francisco de los Covos, his secretary \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">according to [\u00a0\u00a0 ] which, one after the other \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">is as follows:<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">-Very powerful gentlemen<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[\u2026]<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[fo. 1v.]<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[\u2026]<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[fo.<\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">\u00a02r]<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">The King\/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">our president and\u00a0oidores\u00a0of our royal\u00a0audiencia\u00a0and\u00a0canciller\u00eda\u00a0\/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">of the Indies that reside in the Espa\u00f1ola island \/<br \/><br \/>[\u2026]<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">and because it is convenient to our service and good \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">and peopling of those islands that no change is made \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">in how the set admiral left it at the time he departed from that island, \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">while we mandate for it to be studied and decided upon in \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">the most convenient manner. And thus it is our will that it is complied with, therefore \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">I order you to make sure that the persons the said admiral left \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">so that on his behalf they use the said offices of admiral \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">viceroy, and governor, may use the said offices and posts \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">according to and in the way, and form and manner in which it has been used since \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">the said admiral left for these kingdoms by virtue of \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">his powers and privileges. Also do not provoke or consent \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">that any change is made in this nor in any part of this, instead \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">use the persons that the said admiral had appointed before he \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">passed away. As to the said offices, while and until, \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">as it has been said, I order to decide what is just and convenient to my \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">service<\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">, you must get\u00a0do\u00f1a\u00a0Mar\u00eda de Toledo his \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">wife, as tutor and guardian of the children of hers and the said \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">admiral, with all the revenues and rights and benefits and other \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">things pertaining to the said admiral, according to and in the manner \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">that he had it and enjoyed it and was granted to him during his life without \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">missing none [\u2026]<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[fo. 2v.]<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[\u2026]<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[fo. 3r.]<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[\u2026]<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[fo. 4v.]<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[\u2026]<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[fo. 5r.]<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[\u2026]<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">It has been reported to me that, in that island and in the others, there are some \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">Blacks that are\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">run-aways and of wicked life and wiles that are not domestic \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">nor do they work as they are obliged, and [they] induce and call the other \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">Blacks that are peaceful and working to leave and rebel\u00a0 and \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">do other crimes and ills, from which it results that the said Blacks that \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">are in the mines and other farms and businesses rebel \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">and commit other crimes.\u00a0 Therefore I order you to inform yourselves \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">and learn how many of these Blacks are there in that island and in the others \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">and to decide how their owners may take them out of [the islands] and other \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">parts or may have them shackled and under surveillance, so that they have no\/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">chance to do damage. In Madrid on April sixth of fifteen hundred and twenty eight. \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">I the King. Per his majesty\u2019s order,\u00a0 Francisco de los Covos \/<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[\u2026]<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[fo. 5v.]<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[\u2026] done in the city of Santo Domingo on twenty \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">seventh day of the month of October of one thousand and five hundred and \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">twenty eight. [The document] is corrected where it said \u201ceverything\u201d \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[and this] should n<\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">ot invalidate it [the document] \/<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">[<\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">Rubric<\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">?] Diego [Canallo?] notary of his majesty \/<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">+<br \/><br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">Testimony of the request that was submitted \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">to the\u00a0oidores\u00a0about the appointment \/<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">of judge of the Blacks \/<\/span><\/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\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-603268644\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-603268644\" data-tab-index=\"4\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 4;\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b48fb9c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b48fb9c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4be60ac e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4be60ac\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-de70c64 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"de70c64\" 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\/fb-primary-024-comment.pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600px\" style=\"border: none;\">\n    This browser does not support PDFs. 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