Afro-Hispanic slaves are conceptualized, narrated, and visually represented during the creation of the Spanish Empire and the society of New Spain Mexico. In this work, I explore the construction of the visual representation of Afro-Hispanic slaves in the context of slavery systems in Spanish and Mexican urban centers between the Fifteenth and the Eighteenth centuries. Emphasis is given to the problematization of whitening Afro-Hispanic slaves in three groups of images: the Miracle of the Black Leg (Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries); the self-portrait of the Afro-Hispanic slave painter Juan de Pareja (1661); and the first series of Mexican Castas paintings (first quarter of the Seventeenth century).