Source: Amy Notes (ID702)
Author: Howard, Amy (ID633)
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did FMMII agree with his father on this point?
did FMMII agree with his father on this point?
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Blacks in SA were not trusted
Date Created: 2023-10-12 20:56:17
Source: The King?s Coffer (ID 83)
Author: Bushnell, Amy (ID 32)
Content_id: 3928
Sometimes there was evident affection between the races, as the time the slave Maria Luisa was godmother to the baby daughter of a captain. [Note 40: Baptism of Lorensa, daughter of Captain Dionisio de los Rios, Parish Register Baptisms 8/20/1675.] But on the whole, blacks were not trusted. Too many of them had run off and intermarried with the fierce Ais people of the coast. [Note 41: An unidentified document mentioning the slaves escaping to Ais is in JTC1 between the Alvaro Mexia voyage description of July 1605, and the report of the first Francisco Fernandez de Ecija voyage October 1605.] The 100 slaves in 1606 (who included around 40 royal slaves) were expected to fight on the side of any invader who promised them freedom. Treasury officials objected strongly to the captains’ practice of putting their slaves on the payroll as drummers, fifers, and flag bearers. In their opinion the king’s money should not be used to pay “persons of their kind, who are the worst enemies we can have.” [Note 42: Gov. Ybarra 1/4/1606; Bartolome de Arguelles 8/3/1598; Francisco Menendez Marquez, Juan de Cueva, and Francisco Ramirez 1/31/1627.] AN414 (Bushnell KC)