Primer Historia [...] Cristiano Neg[ro, Ne]gra que Salen de Negros Bozales de Guinea [...]. Destos Salio el Bienauenturado San Juan Buen[auentura] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Primer Historia [...] Cristiano Neg[ro, Ne]gra que Salen de Negros Bozales de Guinea [...]. Destos Salio el Bienauenturado San Juan Buen[auentura]
Subject: African American; Slaves; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cuzco; Cusco; West Indies; Lima; South America
Description: This is the first image in the chapter that discusses black people’s involvement and lives in the colonial Spanish society of Peru. This image depicts two devout black Christians from “Guinea” which is what West Africa was known as during the author’s time. They are wearing Spanish clothing as they kneel before an image of the Virgin Mary while holding rosaries. There is a caption at the bottom of the image that was intended to be addressed to the king of Spain. It reads, “s[acra] m[agestad] que el rrey de guinea negro son gente rrecia que uenzera al gran turco y sugetara para el seruicio de dios y de buesa corona rreal, ayudandole con armas y comida” [Sacred Majesty, the king of Guinea, the blacks are strong people and can defeat the Great Turk and subjugate him, in the service of God and your royal crown, helping you with arms and food].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23633
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles; Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_23633_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: African American; Slaves; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization

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