Translation No. 005
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Date: 1501, September 16, Granada
Theme: By 1501 enslaved Blacks raised in Spain were already seen as a convenient labor force for the Spanish colonization of the Americas, but non Christianized Blacks were banned
Source: PARES, Portal de Archivos Españoles--Archivo General de Indias, INDIFERENTE, 418, L.1, F. 41V
that no converts or heretics or Moors or Jews go to the indies may Black slaves or slaves that have been born under the power of Christians be allowed to go
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\ also since we must with great care attempt the conversion of the Indians to our holy Catholic faith and if persons were to go there who are suspicious as to [their] faith [this] could pose some impediment to the said conversion, you will not allow or cause to go there either Moors or Jews or heretics or ] reconciled ones or persons newly converted to our faith except if they were Black slaves or other slaves who had been born under the power of Christians [who are] our subjects and natives
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About not allowing converts or heretics, Moors and Jews to go to the indies and allowing Black slaves to go