Translation No. 056
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Date: 1518, January 26. Santo Domingo, La Española
Theme: In a letter to the Crown, La Española’s oidor Alonso Zuazo criticized the fears about potential rebellions by enslaved Blacks, boasting of how his harsh style of ruling, with severe punishments, had reportedly stopped the stealing and running away by enslaved Blacks in this Spanish colony
Source: PARES, Portal de Archivos Españoles, Archivo General de Indias, PATRONATO,174, R. 8,F.50R,52R-52V,55V.
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It is also necessary, because the indians have much diminished and / |
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with other penalties that made so much warning among the said Blacks, that up to now / |
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Our lord all mighty that has put your majesty at such high throne and / |
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