| Document | Date | Century | City | Province |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| literary print | Literature |
Discussed in lawrance2005, 74. Although many well-off households had slaves, there was social unease.
| Code | Author | Item | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |