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Cubagua pearl-fishing interests

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Cubagua pearl-fishing interests

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A royal license authorizes an African slave shipment to Cubagua

📅 12 January 1526

Sancho Ortiz de Urrutia and Juan de Urrutia received permission to take 30 enslaved Africans to Cubagua. The factor Antón López arrived in April, but protests by the island's alcalde limited...