{"id":63012,"date":"2022-02-09T03:42:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T03:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63012"},"modified":"2022-02-09T03:45:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T03:45:44","slug":"slavery-took-hold-in-florida-under-the-spanish-in-the-forgotten-century-of-1492-1619","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63012","title":{"rendered":"Slavery took hold in Florida under the Spanish in the \u2018forgotten century\u2019 of 1492-1619."},"content":{"rendered":"

Slavery took hold in Florida under the Spanish in the \u2018forgotten century\u2019 of 1492-1619.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Tampa Bay Times<\/a>
\n2019-08-29<\/p>\n

J. Michael Francis<\/strong>, Hough Family Endowed Chair
\nUniversity of South Florida, St. Petersburg<\/em><\/p>\n

Gary Mormino<\/strong>, Professor emeritus of History
\nUniversity of South Florida, St. Petersburg<\/em><\/p>\n

Rachel Sanderson<\/strong>, Associate Director, La Florida: The Interactive Digital Archive of the Americas
\nUniversity of South Florida, St. Petersburg<\/em><\/p>\n

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Artistic rendering of Luisa de Abrego and others [ KATE GODFREY | University of South Florida, St. Petersburg ]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Every 16th century Spanish expedition to Florida<\/a> included Africans, both free and enslaved.<\/em><\/p>\n

On Jan. 5, 1595, an infant boy named Esteban was baptized in the small Spanish garrison town of St. Augustine<\/a>. In the priest\u2019s three-line baptism entry, Esteban\u2019s mother is identified only by her first name, Gratia. Described as a slave owned by a Spanish woman named Catalina, Gratia was one of perhaps 50 slaves who lived in St. Augustine at the end of the 16th century. And like Gratia, most of the town\u2019s other slaves appear only briefly in the historical record, with few personal details besides a Christian name: Sim\u00f3n, Mar\u00eda, Agust\u00edn, Francisca, Ana, Baltasar, Felipe or Ambrosio.<\/p>\n