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Sale agreements for enslaved persons Ciborio and Andres in colonial New Spain
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Sale agreements for enslaved persons Ciborio and Andres in colonial New Spain

Domenico Grillo, Genoese Italian, 1617 - 1687 · April 26, 1670

ink on wove paper
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CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

A four page Spanish language manuscript handwritten in ink describing the sale of two enslaved men in colonial New Spain’s Ciudad de Los Angeles (today Puebla, Mexico). The first and fourth page are stamped with two seals in the upper left cover and have four lines of printed text as the heading. The left margin on all pages is left blank and there is minor wear around the pages.

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