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16
Sèptèmber
1501

Spanish Crown instructions permit enslaved Africans to travel to Hispaniola

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A royal instruction to Nicolás de Ovando allowed Black people enslaved in Spain, and people enslaved from birth under Christian authority, to travel to the Indies while excluding other groups. The document shows how conversion policy and colonial labor demand were joined. It is an early surviving royal record of African enslavement in the Americas, not proof that no enslaved Africans arrived earlier.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Isabella I of Castile

Ferdinand II of Aragon

Nicolás de Ovando

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Spanish Crown