Details

Subjects:

Slavery -- Guatemala.
Slavery -- Guyana.
Slavery.
Guatemala -- History -- To 1821.
Guatemala.
History.
Guyana.

Form/Genre:

Contracts.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

In Spanish.

Summary:

Signed contract for the sale in Guatemala of an enslaved African woman transported from Guyana, to buyer Señor Juan Durán by seller Señor Fernando Paz. Later foliation suggests that this paper leaf was removed from a volume or a bound collection of documents.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction at Bonhams (New York), 14 Apr. 2012, lot 25.
Sold by Voyager Press Rare Books & Manuscripts (West Vancouver, British Columbia), Manuscripta Americana catalog (2012).

Contributor:

Durán, Juan, 16th century.
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

806232422