Slaves of African origin
When Nicolás de Ovando arrived in thenew world, met with the nativepopulation was in a State of rebellion.This rebellion was put down through aseries of bloody campaigns. Thus, in1504 he ordered hanged the AnacaonaTaino cacica. A series ofepidemicsreduced the population of Hispaniola:when Cristóbal Colón arrived on the island in 1492, it is believed that it wasinhabited by almost 500,000 people (although the padre Las Casas stated that they were between one and two million). However, according to thecensus taken in 1507, the natives had been reduced to only 60,000 inhabitants. He also developed the mining industry. He introduced thecultivation of sugar cane,with plants imported from the Canary Islands.Colonists were not only interested inusing the native population asservitude, but also to extract gold from the mines.
Nicolás de Ovando imported slaves in Hispaniola, from 1502, for the first time because he already according to the laws of time native Americans not could be treatedas slaves. Many of the members of the Spanish eliteasked groups of slaves to workas servants in their homes particulares.5most of these slaves were sent to work in the fields of azucar. In addition,introduced the encomienda indiana diana in 1505. Began to distributeIndians in encomiendas regime. It was an institution that he knewperfectly,since it was more Encomendero of the order of Alcántara in Spain.
In 1501, the Spanish monarchs,Ferdinand and Isabella, granted the first permit to the colonists of the Caribbean to import African slaves,which began to arrive in the island in1503. These Africans have had themost dominant racial influence, and itsrich and ancient culture has had asecondary influence on the culturalcharacter of themodern Dominican Republic.
In 1510, the first great expedition, which consisted of250 black ladinos,arrived in Hispaniola from Spain. Eight years later the slaves of Africanorigin arrived in the West Indies. Sugar cane was introduced to Hispaniola from the Canary Islands, and the first sugar mill in the new world was established in 1516 ,in the espanola. The need for a workforce to meet thegrowing demand for sugar cane cultivation led to an exponential increasein the importation of slaves in the next two decades. The owners of themills of sugar soon formed a new colonial elite, convinced the King of Spain so they could choose the members of the Real Audienciafrom theirranks. The poorer colonists subsisted hunting and herds of wild cattleroaming throughout the island and from the sale of their pelts.
The African contribution was given continuously until the beginning of the19th century and will mark a fundamental cultural imprint denied in theofficial Dominican identity, what it is today mainly a product of the mixing ofelements Spanish and African. The African contribution was givencontinuously until the beginning of the 19th century and will mark afundamental cultural imprint denied in the official Dominican identity, what itis today mainly a product of the mixing of elements Spanish and African.
The abolition of slavery in the Dominican Republic was carried outunder the Government of Haiti,unfortunately the hard Haitian controlperiod led to that officially the island‘sAfrican history has been hidden ordisregarded, creating a society inwhicheventually certain dimensions ofracism is present in
paradoxical ways.
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