Document | Date | Century | City | Province |
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Coplas de como una dama ruega a un negro que cante. | 1520ca | 16cent/1/early | Sevilla | Andalucia |
Broadside (Seville: Cromberger, c.1520)? that tells the tale of a mistress who attempts to seduce her slave under the guise of persuading him to sing for her. Although many masters cohabited with their female servants and slaves, sexual relations between a woman and her slave or servant were not as easily tolerated. The humour inherent in the verse comes from the scorn with which the reader would have viewed the protagonists.
Document type | Subject | Siglum | Archive name | Call no. |
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literary print | Literature |
Discussed in lawrance2005, 74. Although many well-off households had slaves, there was social unease.
The interesting thing here is that the prints on the cover of the broadsheet are the same as some used with vihuelists where each person is from a separate woodblock. Compare with illustration 16-128
Code | Author | Item | Pages |
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lawrance2005 | Lawrance, Jeremy. | “Black Africans in Renaissance Spanish Literature”. Black Africans in Renaissance Europe. Ed. T.F. Earl and K.J.P. Lowe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. |