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Language Spanish Place Cuba, Americas Level [36] Series

1. EAP060/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP060/1/1
Title:
Esclavos Bozales
Scope & Content:
This series contains documents related to administrative issues regarding African slaves and slavery in Matanzas. The original files cover the dates 1770-1868.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1770-1868
Extent:
184 files comprising 1,558 Tiff images

2. EAP060/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP060/1/2
Title:
Cimarrones
Scope & Content:
This series contains documents related to administrative issues regarding runaway slaves in the Province of Matanzas. The original files cover the dates 1770-1850.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1850
Extent:
202 files comprising 1,444 Tiff images

3. EAP060/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP060/1/3
Title:
Sublevaciones
Scope & Content:
This series contains documents related to administrative issues regarding African slave revolts and runaway slaves in the Province of Matanzas. The original files cover the dates 1825-1848.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
48 files comprising 239 Tiff images

4. EAP060/1/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP060/1/4
Title:
Delitos
Scope & Content:
This series contains documents related to crimes and felonies committed by slaves and Africans in the Province of Matanzas. The original files cover the dates 1845-1884. Only one box of the three containing this Legajo was digitised by the Project.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1884
Extent:
96 files comprising 487 Tiff images

5. EAP060/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP060/2/1
Title:
Libros de Bautismos de Pardos y Morenos
Scope & Content:
This series contains two baptism registers (numbers 7 and 8) recording details of the baptisms of "brown and coloured people" in the city of Matanzas. Both volumes are titled "Libros de Bautismos de Indios, Pardos y Morenos", but only the baptisms of Pardos y Morenos are recorded. The original vo...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1814
Extent:
2 volumes comprising 226 Tiff images

6. EAP060/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP060/2/2
Title:
Libros Matrimonios de Pardos y Morenos
Scope & Content:
The series contains two marriage registers (numbers 3 and 4) recording details of the marriages of "brown and coloured people" in the city of Matanzas. The original volumes cover the dates 1791-1843.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1791-1843
Extent:
2 volumes comprising 388 Tiff images

7. EAP060/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP060/2/3
Title:
Libros de Entierros de Pardos y Morenos
Scope & Content:
This series contains two burial registers (numbers 6 and 13) recording details of the burials of "brown and coloured people" in the city of Matanzas. The original volumes cover the dates 1820-1858.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1820-1858
Extent:
2 volumes comprising 402 Tiff images

8. EAP843/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP843/1/1
Title:
Libros de Bautismos de Pardos y Morenos (Baptismal Books for Brown and Black People)
Scope & Content:
Baptismal Registers for Brown and Black People were created by priests or scribes in order to record the event of baptism from free and enslaved people of African, Asian, or Indigenous descent. They are primarily written in Castillian Spanish with occasional insertions of Latin phrases or words....
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Latin and Spanish
Date Range:
1737-1826
Extent:
2887 TIFF images

9. EAP955/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP955/1/1
Title:
Bautismos de Color [1765-1895]
Scope & Content:
These bound volumes contain paragraph length entries for recording information of people who the Church classified "of colour." This was primarily a racial designation that was determined by skin color, the race of one's parents, and other factors. In Cuba, there were many ways to describe race ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Latin and Spanish
Date Range:
1765-1895
Extent:
9319 TIFF images

10. EAP955/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP955/1/2
Title:
Bautismos de Blancos [1689-1874]
Scope & Content:
These bound volumes contain baptismal information on people that the church classified as "whites". All racial designations were inexact and contextually dependent assignation. In general, anyone born of white parents, whether on the Iberian peninsula, in Cuba, or elsewhere, was categorised as "...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Latin and Spanish
Date Range:
1689-1874
Extent:
5095 TIFF images