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Geographic distribution of blacks in the country is often tied to history. Higher concentrations of Afro Dominicans, descended from African slaves bought to colonial Santo Domingo, are in the southeast plain, because that is where most of the slaves were in the Spanish side of the island, around Monte Plata, El Seibo, and Hato Mayor etc.
Sebastián Lemba (fl. 1540s) was an early Dominican slave rebel leader who led a prolonged maroon rebellion in the colony of Santo Domingo, (present day Dominican Republic). He is remembered as a significant figure in Dominican history , as that his actions paved the way for the eventual liberation of the Dominicans from their Spanish oppressors.
The Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, who governed between 1930 and 1961, tenaciously promoted an anti-Haitian sentiment and used racial persecution and nationalistic fervor against Haitian migrants. The Dominican Republic has a right of blood law, which bases nationality on ancestral lineage rather than land of birth. The country ...
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Juan Ceferino Suero y Carmona (1808 – March 19, 1864) also known by his nickname, Black Cid, was a Dominican military commander who fought in the Dominican War of Independence. He later fought, however, in the service of Spain, in the Dominican Restoration War , in which he died after receiving a bullet wound during the Battle of Paso del ...
Celsa Altagracia Albert Batista was born on 28 July 1942 in Guaymate, a batey in La Romana Province, Dominican Republic to Rosa Batista and Charles Albert.Her mother was Dominican, from Santiago de los Caballeros and her father, a Cocolo who migrated to the Dominican Republic from Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Former Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia offers some advice to new Singaporean President Tharman Shanmugaratnam: abolish the death penalty, and your country will be better off.
This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focused on those African-Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African-Americans. The United States has a long history of racism against its Black citizens. [2]