The "they only killed the black ones" test: Quarequa, Panama, 1513
Record: the document says itLens: our readingOpen: not yet provenKilled: failed the test
Year: 1513 · Places: Central America, Africa
SUMMARYThe "they only killed the black ones" test: Quarequa, Panama, 1513 (Nov 7, 2026; Tito: "find cases where they found black Indians and lighter skinned and only killed the black")
RECORD (Peter Martyr, Decades; via core.ac.uk text pp. 7–8)at Cuarecua the Spaniards "encontraron allí esclavos negros de una región que dista de Cuarecua sólo dos días"; "los de Cuarecua tienen odios intestinos con esos negros, y se esclavizan mutuamente o se matan."
RECORD (López de Gómara, Historia general de las Indias)Balboa "halló algunos negros esclavos del señor... Éstos fueron los primeros negros que se vieron en Indias"; the cacique Torecha "murió peleando, con otros seiscientos de los suyos"; Balboa "aperreó... cincuenta putos que halló allí, y luego quemólos."
KILLED (test: who did the dogs kill?)the popular reading that Balboa set the dogs on the black men fails on Gómara's own words: the dogs were set on 50 men accused of sodomy, not on the negros
OPENthe fate of the black men is not recorded in either text; where their region "two days away" was; Las Casas's version still to read in full
LENStwo peoples of different color already lived side by side in Darién before any African captives were landed there, and the chroniclers called it the first time they saw "negros" in the Indies. Connects: P160, Rule 3.