1521 Santo Domingo Slave Revolt

Slave rebellion on Hispaniola 1521 Santo Domingo Slave Revolt The Slave Revolts in North America 1521 12 25 Colony of Santo Domingo Liberation Suppression of the revolt Enslaved Africans Slaveowners, Spanish colonial government Maria Olofa (Wolofa) and Gonzalo Mandinga Diego Columbus Introduction of new laws to control the enslaved population Effects Outcome The 1521 Santo Domingo Slave Revolt in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola took place around the time of Christmas festivities in 1521. It is the earliest recorded slave rebellion in the Americas.Stevens-Acevedo Anthony http://www.dominicanlandmarks.com/Slave-Revolt-1521-Slave-Laws-1522-Monograph.pdf The Santo Domingo Slave Revolt of 1521 and the Slave Laws of 1522: Black Slavery and Black Resistance in the Early Colonial Americas CUNY Dominican Studies Institute 2019 New York, USA 2021-11-24 2021-02-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20211124022629/http://www.dominicanlandmarks.com/Slave-Revolt-1521-Slave-Laws-1522-Monograph.pdf dead Just days after the rebellion, the colonial authorities introduced a set of laws to prevent another uprising. These are thought to be the earliest surviving laws created to control enslaved Africans in the New World. The rebellion started on the Nueva Isabela sugar plantation (located today in the northwestern outskirts of Santo Domingo cityGuitar Lynne https://books.google.com/books?id=vF0lcFF4pGoC Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America 2006 UNM Press 978-0-8263-2397-2 Landers Jane en Boiling it Down: Slavery On The First Commercial Sugarcane Ingenios In The Americas (Hispaniola, 1530-45)) owned by the colony's governor Diego Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus. The text of 1522 slave laws describe that a "certain number" of slaves "agreed to rebel and rebelled with intention and purpose to kill all the Christians they could and to free themselves and take over the land." The historical documents present the uprising as well-planned and coordinated action. Local oral tradition says that the rebellion was led by Maria Olofa (Wolofa) and Gonzalo Mandinga, a romantic couple, both Muslims from the Wolof nation.Renville Juan Guaroa Ubiñas https://books.google.com/books?id=BcUNAAAAYAAJ&q=Maria+Olofa+Gonzalo+Mandinga Mitos, creencias y leyendas dominicanas 2000 Ediciones Librería La Trinitaria 978-99934-0-099-8 es Dominican myths, beliefs and legends On January 6 of 1522 (Day of the Three Kings also known as Ephiphany), just days after the uprising, Columbus as governor, introduced strict laws designed to prevent the "Black and slaves" from uprising again. These are thought to be some of the earliest laws created to control enslaved Africans in the New World. The 1522 laws restricted the physical movements of the enslaved, prohibited the enslaved from bearing arms and accessing weapons, required enslavers to keep strict slave registers, and introduced harsh punishment in the form of physical torture and execution.Ali Shirin 2021-12-03 This is the 500th anniversary of the first rebellion of enslaved people in Americas https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/584264-this-is-the-500th-anniversary-of-the-first-rebellion-of https://web.archive.org/web/20220117155214/https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/584264-this-is-the-500th-anniversary-of-the-first-rebellion-of 2022-01-17 2026-06-23 TheHill en There is some disagreement by historians on the precise date of the rebellion. Some historical sources state the rebellion took place on the first or second day of Christmas. Contemporary historians generally mark the anniversary of the rebellion as December 25 or 26th, other sources mistakenly call it the "1522 slave rebellion".Torres-Saillant Silvio 2010 Introduction to Dominican Blackness https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/dsi/upload/Introduction_to_Dominican_Blackness_Web.pdf City University of New York - Dominican Studies Institute 2 See also Dominican Republic Spain History Latin America Caribbean North America Slave rebellion Maroons Atlantic Slave trade Sebastián Lemba Bibliography Albert Batista, Celsa. Africans on our island. Santo Domingo: Editora La Trinitaria, 2010. Collection of documents for the history of the social formation of Latin America, 1493-1810, Cédula (05/11/1526), CSIC, Madrid: 1953. Jesús Domínguez, Jaime. Dominican History. Santo Domingo: Editora ABC, 2001. Deive, Carlos Esteban. 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