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Enslaved Blacks brought to La Española began to resist slavery by running away practically from the beginning of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

1503

Household slaves of Captain Gerónimo Agüero Bardecí in Santo Domingo, 1605

1605

In 1518, the Governor of Santo Domingo proposed a triangular trade among La Española, Spain and West Africa

1518

In 1519 in La Española, some enslaved Blacks owned by a politically powerful master were able to literally get away with murder

1519

In 1553 Miguel de Torquemada, a young mulatto from Santo Domingo residing temporarily in Seville, Spain, requested royal permission to return to Santo Domingo

Dec. 5, 1553

In 1553, residents of Santo Domingo still remembered how Black maroon leader Sebastián Lemba’s head was exhibited in the city’s public square

1533

In 1555, a slave ship arrived in Santo Domingo loaded with branded sugar crates and branded Black Africans

1555

In 1558 Santo Domingo, the local prison kept slave and non-slave, Black and non-Black, men and women detainees within the same building complex

1558

In 1568, after serving two female masters for over a decade in Seville, two young female Black slaves born in Santo Domingo were granted freedom by their second master

Nov. 27, 1568

Maroon and rebel Black slaves in La Española were a concern for residents of the city of Santo Domingo in the mid-1540s

1540