Description: Contains a register of church members entitled to partake of the holy communion, contains name, address and year of admission. Extent of original material: 150 pages.
The Espiritu Santo Church in the oldest standing Catholic Church in Cuba. It dates to 1638 and was originally a hermitage dedicated to free people of African descent. It is located within the old city walls, in the area of Havana known as "Old Havana." Sacramental books are divided by race be...
Libros de Bautismos de Pardos y Morenos (Baptismal Books for Brown and Black People)
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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....
Libro 7 Bautismos de Pardos y Morenos (Book 7 Baptisms of Brown and Black People)
Scope & Content:
This bound volume contains information on baptisms of Pardos y Morenos (blacks and brown people) who attended the Church of Espiritu Santo during the years 1737-1747. Each entry is standardized and contains the names of the parents, when available, the person being baptised, godparents, the pri...
Libro 10 Bautismos de Pardos y Morenos (Book 10 Baptisms of Brown and Black People)
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This volume contains baptism records for an unkown number of individuals. It was deemed to deteriorated to digitize by the archivist, Felix Knights. The book covers these baptisms in the years 1759-1768. This information is key for historians because these were the years of the British invasi...
Libro 12 Bautismos de Pardos y Morenos (Book 12 Baptisms of Brown and Black People)
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This volume contains baptism records for 1,754 individuals of color between the years March 1773 and July 1777. These individuals are identified by race (black, brown, mixed race, African) and often by African ethnic origin (congo, carabali, mandinga, mina, etc.). They are also listed as legit...