Manuscript No. 003
Date: 1500. La Española
Theme: A free young Black man, named Juan Moreno or Juan Prieto, who worked as Christopher Columbus’ servant in La Española, is considered the first Black person on record to arrive in the Americas since 1492.
Source: España. Ministerio de Cultura, Educación y Deporte, Archivo General de Simancas, INC. 13, 1ra. Parte, fo. 13v.- 21r., 2da. Parte, fo. 4v.- 5r.
Note: This translation is based on a transcription donated by paleographer and archivist Isabel Aguirre Landa. An earlier version was published in Consuelo Varela: La caída de Cristóbal Colón. El juicio de Bobadilla. Madrid, 2006.