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Most slaves who came to Saint-Domingue worked in fields or shops; the youngest slaves often became household servants, while the oldest slaves were employed as surveillants. Some slaves became skilled workmen, and they received privileges such as better food, the ability to go into town, and partake in liberté des savanes (savannah liberty), a ...
The black guerrillas: slaves, fugitives and maroons in Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo: Dominican Cultural Foundation, 1989. Fernández de Oviedo, Gonzalo. General and Natural History of the Indies (1478-1557), Volume I. Madrid: Printing Office of the Royal Academy of History, 1992. Franco Pichardo, Franklin. Blacks, Mulattoes and the Dominican ...
In fact, deaths were outpacing births. The population of the colony only remained constant due to the constant influx of enslaved people. [39] A majority of slaves only lived for a few years after their arrival. [40] Many people in the colony were outraged by the death of many slaves and the brutality occurring.
Latter that decade, there were also rebellions of enslaved people, led by Diego de Guzman, Diego de Campo, and Captain Lemba. [22] Ruins of Monasterio de San Francisco Ruins of Hospital San Nicolás de Bari. Beginning in the 1520s, the Caribbean Sea was raided by increasingly numerous French pirates. In 1541, Spain authorized the construction ...
Seal of the French department of Santo-Domingo. In the history of the Dominican Republic, the period of Era de Francia ("Era of France", "French Era" or "French Period") occurred in 1795 when France acquired the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, annexed it into Saint-Domingue and briefly came to acquire the whole island of Hispaniola by the way of the Treaty of Basel, allowing Spain to cede ...
Santo Domingo, on eastern Hispaniola, under French control. The war between Spain and the Convention ended with the cession of the eastern part of the island of Santo Domingo to France, in exchange for the return of the peninsular territories occupied by the French army, as stipulated in the Treaty of Basel, signed on July 22, 1795, between both countries.
Lemba and his group were soon joined other enslaved Africans who had also escaped, operated as an army. Lemba was known for his tactical prowess and his ability to outmaneuver Spanish soldiers. The Lemba revolt lasted 15 years until his capture in 1547 or 1548, and is recognized as one of the first cases of Maroon resistance in the Americas.
Dominican privateers targeted British, Dutch, French and Danish ships throughout the eighteenth century. [29] Dominicans constituted one of the many diverse units which fought under Bernardo de Gálvez during the Spanish recapture of Florida from Britain during the American Revolutionary War. [30] [31] Map of Santo Domingo in the 1700s.