[Slavery]. [Cuba]

[Manifest of over 130 African Slaves Bound for Various Locations in Cuba]

[Havana? July 10, 1866]. [3]pp. on a bifolium. Separated at fold. Some wear to edge of first leaf, cause some minor loss to text. A few scattered tape repairs and reattachments. Some offsetting. Good. Item #4747

A colonial Spanish manuscript slave manifest for the steamship Cristobal Colon, carrying dozens of enslaved Africans from Bailen to Partido del Cano, both in Cuba. The text at the head reads as follows:

"Nomina de los Africano bozales que conduc[ten] el vapor Cristobol Colon embarcado hoy a las siete de la [ma]ñana por el muelle de Bailen con destino al Partido del Cano unos de la propridad de D. José Rafael Diaz y otros de D. José Garcia, y por encargo de sus dueños los custodia D. Juan Antonio Sanchez Bustamante y este individuo tiene biencia annal del Partido de Consolacion del Sur."

Bailen is on the southern coast of Cuba, north of the Isle of Pines; "El Cano" seems to have been a plantation outside of Havana, while Consolacion del Sur is coastal town in the Pinar del Rio region of Cuba. The manifest lists 133 "Africanos bozales," that is, slaves who could not speak Spanish, in two or three columns, separated between men, "varones," and women, "hembras" - their assigned names are given, generally of Christian origin but with some range, e.g "Ciforiana," "Liborio," and "Dionisia." Their ages are given, one as young as nine, several in their late thirties, but most in their teens to early thirties. An additional leaf, signed from Manila and dated July 10, 1866 notes that although 133 people were sent, only 115 survived the journey and lists the names of those who perished.

Price: $7,500.00