Transcription No. 071
Date: 1492
Theme: Young black man Juan Portugués (“John The Portuguese”) arrives in La Española with Christopher Columbus in his first trip to the Americas. The information is contained in a statement given by Juan Portugués in 1516 at Santa María del Darién (today’s Colombia)
Source: ‘Probanza del Fiscal, Santa María de la Antigua, 30 de octubre de 1515,’ in Pleitos Colombinos. IV- Probanzas del Fiscal (1512-1515), Ed. by Antonio Muro Orejón. Seville: Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, 1989, p. 287-308.
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