{"id":3315,"date":"2025-10-05T04:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/?page_id=3315"},"modified":"2025-10-05T04:41:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:41:49","slug":"fb-primary-033-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-033-manuscript","title":{"rendered":"Manuscript No. 033"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3315\" class=\"elementor elementor-3315\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-da1ecef e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"da1ecef\" 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-b7a9607 e-n-tabs-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-n-tabs\" data-id=\"b7a9607\" 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=\"192583175\" aria-label=\"Tabs. Open items with Enter or Space, close with Escape and navigate using the Arrow keys.\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"e-n-tabs-heading\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<button id=\"e-n-tab-title-1925831751\" class=\"e-n-tab-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab-index=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"e-n-tab-content-1925831751\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 1;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"e-n-tab-title-text\">\n\t\t\t\tManuscript \t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<button id=\"e-n-tab-title-1925831752\" class=\"e-n-tab-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab-index=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"e-n-tab-content-1925831752\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 2;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"e-n-tab-title-text\">\n\t\t\t\tTranscription \t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<button id=\"e-n-tab-title-1925831753\" class=\"e-n-tab-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab-index=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"e-n-tab-content-1925831753\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 3;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"e-n-tab-title-text\">\n\t\t\t\tTranslation \t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<button id=\"e-n-tab-title-1925831754\" class=\"e-n-tab-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab-index=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"e-n-tab-content-1925831754\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 4;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"e-n-tab-title-text\">\n\t\t\t\tCommentary \t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<button id=\"e-n-tab-title-1925831755\" class=\"e-n-tab-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab-index=\"5\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"e-n-tab-content-1925831755\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 5;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"e-n-tab-title-text\">\n\t\t\t\tManuscript &amp; Transcription\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"e-n-tabs-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-1925831751\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-1925831751\" data-tab-index=\"1\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 1;\" class=\"e-active elementor-element elementor-element-993b0de e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"993b0de\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ae96730 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ae96730\" 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:\u00a0 \u00a01539, September 3.\u00a0 [Seville] Spain<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">Theme: Catalina Fern\u00e1ndez, a Black freedwoman residing in Seville, obtained the license to travel to Santo\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">Domingo in La Espa\u00f1ola with her daughter Francisca de Castill<\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">a, apparently a freed person as well.<br \/><\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">S<\/span><span class=\"No_0020Spacing__Char\">ource:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pares.mcu.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PARES, Portal de Archivos Espa\u00f1oles, Archivo General de Indias, CONTRATACION, 5536,L.5, F.197R<\/a><\/span><\/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-3d33b21 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"3d33b21\" 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\/10\/Manuscript-033_1tfk3NS.pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600px\" style=\"border: none;\">\n    This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it: <a href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Manuscript-033_1tfk3NS.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-1925831752\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-1925831752\" data-tab-index=\"2\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 2;\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bb50125 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"bb50125\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bcd47a7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"bcd47a7\" 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\/10\/fb-primary-033-transcription.pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600px\" style=\"border: none;\">\n    This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it: <a href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fb-primary-033-transcription.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-1925831753\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-1925831753\" data-tab-index=\"3\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 3;\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-af6a555 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"af6a555\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-faaabfd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"faaabfd\" 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><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Date:\u00a0 <\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">1539, September 3.\u00a0 [Seville?] Spain.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Theme: Catalina Fern\u00e1ndez, a freed black woman residing in Seville, obtained the license to travel to Santo<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Domingo in La Espa\u00f1ola with her daughter Francisca de Castilla, apparently a freed person as well.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Source: PARES, Portal de Archivos Espa\u00f1oles, Archivo General de Indias, CONTRATACION,5536,L.5,F.197R<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><table data-tablestyle=\"MsoNormalTable\" data-tablelook=\"1184\" aria-rowcount=\"1\"><tbody><tr aria-rowindex=\"1\"><td data-celllook=\"0\"><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">[fo. 197r. ]<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/td><td data-celllook=\"0\"><p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/td><td data-celllook=\"0\"><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">[\u2026]<\/span> <span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;469777462&quot;:[3463],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On the third of September of year 39 \/<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">[\u2026]\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Francisca de Castilla, daughter of Garc\u00eda de Castilla and Catalina Hernandez, \/<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">denizens of Seville, left on the said vessel with her mother \/<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On September third of year 153[9?] \/<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Catalina Fern\u00e1ndez, of black color, denizen of this city left for Santo Domingo on the said vessel. \/<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">She presented before us two letters of freedom that passed before Ger\u00f3nimo P\u00e9rez de \/<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sahag\u00fan, public notary of Seville on twenty fourth of August and second of September \/<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of one thousand and five hundred and thirty six years, in which it is certified \/<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that she is free and freed, and in accordance to them we issued her license to go to the Indies \/<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Francisca de Castilla, daughter of Garc\u00eda de Castilla and Catalina Hern\u00e1ndez, denizen of Seville, left \/<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for Santo Domingo on the said vessel.\u00a0 We gave her license to go \/<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">because a testimony is given and was given of her \/<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">[\u2026]<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p>\u00a0<\/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-1925831754\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-1925831754\" data-tab-index=\"4\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 4;\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ec81e77 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"ec81e77\" 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-74bd72c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"74bd72c\" 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><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Date:\u00a0 <\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">1539, September 3.\u00a0 [Seville] Spain.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Theme: Catalina Fern\u00e1ndez, a freed black woman residing in Seville, obtained the license to travel to Santo<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Domingo in La Espa\u00f1ola with her daughter Francisca de Castilla, apparently a freed person as well.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Source: PARES, Portal de Archivos Espa\u00f1oles, Archivo General de Indias, CONTRATACION, 5536,L.5, F.197R<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Not all black people who arrived in La Espa\u00f1ola during the sixteenth century were enslaved people.\u00a0 Some arrived on their own will and volition and established themselves in the young Spanish colony as free individuals.\u00a0 And out of these, some were women.\u00a0 That was the case of this Catalina Hern\u00e1ndez, who traveled across the Ocean from Seville to Santo Domingo in 1539 accompanied by her daughter Francisca de Castilla, apparently a free person as well.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Catalina, says the archival record, was a former slave who had obtained her deed of manumission or freedom three years earlier, and under her new status she was granted a <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">licencia <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">or permission to travel, which she showed to the authorities as she was about to board a ship in Seville, the commercial capital of the growing empire, bound to Santo Domingo on the other side of the Atlantic.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Both Catalina and Francisca\u2019s father, Garc\u00eda de Castilla, are described in the sources as denizens of Seville at the time, which may indicate that Francisca may have been a Spain-born young woman, either a mulatto or black person, depending on whether Garc\u00eda de Castilla was a white or black man, which the record does not mention.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If the trip was indeed fulfilled, this would put Catalina and Francisca in Santo Domingo by the end of 1539. Catalina, as in the case of other black women mentioned in other archival records as traveling alone to the Indies, could have been herself a native of La Espa\u00f1ola taken to Seville by former settlers of the island that returned to Spain and may have been just trying to return to the place where she grew up and where she possibly had relatives, but she could have also been just a woman with a lot of initiative trying to begin a new life in the Americas.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/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<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-1925831755\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-1925831755\" data-tab-index=\"5\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 5;\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c1f01cb e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c1f01cb\" 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-2217eb2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"2217eb2\" 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\/10\/Manuscript-Transcription-033.pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600px\" style=\"border: none;\">\n    This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it: <a href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Manuscript-Transcription-033.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a>.\n<\/iframe>\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 Transcription Translation Commentary Manuscript &amp; Transcription Date:\u00a0 \u00a01539, September 3.\u00a0 [Seville] SpainTheme: Catalina Fern\u00e1ndez, a Black freedwoman residing in Seville, obtained the license to travel to Santo\u00a0Domingo in La Espa\u00f1ola with her daughter Francisca de Castilla, apparently a freed person as well.Source:\u00a0PARES, Portal de Archivos Espa\u00f1oles, Archivo General de Indias, CONTRATACION, 5536,L.5, F.197R This [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2721,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3315","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Manuscript No. 033 - First Blacks in The Americas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-033-manuscript\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Manuscript No. 033 - First Blacks in The Americas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Manuscript Transcription Translation Commentary Manuscript &amp; Transcription Date:\u00a0 \u00a01539, September 3.\u00a0 [Seville] SpainTheme: Catalina Fern\u00e1ndez, a Black freedwoman residing in Seville, obtained the license to travel to Santo\u00a0Domingo in La Espa\u00f1ola with her daughter Francisca de Castilla, apparently a freed person as well.Source:\u00a0PARES, Portal de Archivos Espa\u00f1oles, Archivo General de Indias, CONTRATACION, 5536,L.5, F.197R This [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-033-manuscript\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"First Blacks in The Americas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-05T04:41:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Tiempo de lectura\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"6 minutos\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-033-manuscript\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-033-manuscript\",\"name\":\"Manuscript No. 033 - First Blacks in The Americas\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-05T04:37:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-05T04:41:49+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-033-manuscript#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"es\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-033-manuscript\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-033-manuscript#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Manuscripts\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/manuscripts\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Manuscript No. 033\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/\",\"name\":\"First Blacks in The Americas\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"es\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"First Blacks in The Americas\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"es\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dsi-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dsi-logo.jpg\",\"width\":240,\"height\":52,\"caption\":\"First Blacks in The Americas\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Manuscript No. 033 - First Blacks in The Americas","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-033-manuscript\/","og_locale":"es_ES","og_type":"article","og_title":"Manuscript No. 033 - First Blacks in The Americas","og_description":"Manuscript Transcription Translation Commentary Manuscript &amp; Transcription Date:\u00a0 \u00a01539, September 3.\u00a0 [Seville] SpainTheme: Catalina Fern\u00e1ndez, a Black freedwoman residing in Seville, obtained the license to travel to Santo\u00a0Domingo in La Espa\u00f1ola with her daughter Francisca de Castilla, apparently a freed person as well.Source:\u00a0PARES, Portal de Archivos Espa\u00f1oles, Archivo General de Indias, CONTRATACION, 5536,L.5, F.197R This [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-033-manuscript\/","og_site_name":"First Blacks in The Americas","article_modified_time":"2025-10-05T04:41:49+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Tiempo de lectura":"6 minutos"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-033-manuscript","url":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-033-manuscript","name":"Manuscript No. 033 - First Blacks in The Americas","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2025-10-05T04:37:52+00:00","dateModified":"2025-10-05T04:41:49+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-033-manuscript#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"es","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-033-manuscript"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-033-manuscript#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Manuscripts","item":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/manuscripts"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Manuscript No. 033"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/","name":"First Blacks in The Americas","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"es"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/#organization","name":"First Blacks in The Americas","url":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"es","@id":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dsi-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dsi-logo.jpg","width":240,"height":52,"caption":"First Blacks in The Americas"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3315\/revisions\/3329"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}