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The Miscellaneous Afro-Latin America Collection - .1 linear feet
(1 flat box) The collection consists of a mix of official,
private, andfamily papers from colonial Spanish American
territories: Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico and
Venezuela. The documents are all from the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, except for a chronology of the history of
blacks in Uruguay from 1680-1990. Included in the official
documents are a number of royal decrees concerning the commerce
in Africans, the education,treatment and occupation of enslaved
laborers, and the liberation of fugitives from the territories
of imperial rivals. Other decrees include an 1810 Mexican
prohibition against intermarriage between those of "known
nobility andpure blood and blacks, mulattos and other castes"
and an 1812 decree tackling the education of Spanish subjects of
African origin in Mexico. Significant in t