A fall epidemic had disrupted the colonial government ... raising hopes that the Spanish in St. Augustine would give a positive reception to slaves escaping from Carolina plantations.

Tamara Walker - author of Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing and Status in Colonial Lima ‘Extensively researched ... and people of African descent in sixteenth-century Seville and Spanish America.

But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually -- one person at a time, one law at a time, even one colony at a time. All servants imported and brought ...

Walter Benjamin's dictum that every work of art is also a work of barbarism comes to mind with "New World Orders," an exhibition of Spanish colonial casta paintings ... and Black blood associated with ...

Here is where some former European colonial powers ... from the Spanish government and from companies and private fortunes ...