For these enslaved Black people to whom the Bible is vehemently imposed, celebrations of the Epiphany become somewhat incongruous when their torturers honor the Magi, among whom is the African Balthazar. Three thousand natives in Lima, Peru, chose the day before Epiphany in 1667 to prepare an uprising. They had gathered outside the city and faced the Spanish forces who inflicted severe punishments on them. The slave traders succeeded one another and accumulated considerable fortunes. Thus works of art about the Magi were found in the cabinet of the great collector Crozat, Baron de Thiers, whose father was the protagonist of the slave trade, the first owner of Louisiana. The coat of arms of this family, stained with the blood of thousands of Africans, proudly displays three stars, in homage to these three Kings…