Black ladino

Black Ladinos (Spanish: negros ladinos) were Hispanicized black Ladinos, exiled to Spanish America after having spent time[1] in Spain.

They were referred to as negros ladinos ("cultivated" or "latinized Blacks"), as opposed to negros bozales ("uneducated Blacks"), i.e., those captured in Africa. The Ladinos' skills granted them a higher price than those of bozales.[2]

Black Ladinos born in the Americas were negros criollos ("Creole Blacks", cf. Creoles of color).

  1. ^ esclavo ladino in the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española: "Slave who spent over a year in slavery".
  2. ^ Génesis y desarrollo de la esclavitud en Colombia: siglos XVI y XVII, page 132, María Cristina Navarrete, Universidad del Valle, 2005