Scope and Content Note
The Domingo Del Monte Collection of Spanish Colonial History spans the years 1500-1871 and consists of papers related to Spanish colonial history in the West Indies, Cuba, Mexico, South America, and the Philippines collected by Domingo Del Monte y Aponte, a Cuban historian.
The papers include correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, printed matter, reports, and miscellaneous official documents. Included is the manuscript of "Cuba Teatro de la Isla Fernandina" which remains unpublished. Also included are reports on copper mines; a report on the Yucatán insurrection of 1825; documents pertaining to slavery in the West Indies and the Philippines and slave trafficking; notes written in 1572 on the history of Peru; Cuban broadsides, newspapers, and correspondence and papers relating to regulation of labor and immigration; and a history of slavery and a description of the condition of blacks in Cuba.