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Charles V

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Charles V

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Charles V grants a license to ship 4,000 enslaved Africans to the Americas

📅 18 August 1518

Charles V granted Lorenzo de Gorrevod a license for the direct shipment of 4,000 enslaved Africans from Africa to Spanish America. The license reveals how the Crown converted human beings into a...