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An estimated 400,000 Tainos living on the island were soon enslaved to work in gold mines. By 1508, their numbers had decreased to around 60,000 because of forced labor, hunger, disease, and the Taíno genocide. By 1535, only a few dozen were still alive. [12] During this period, the colony's Spanish leadership changed several times.
Historically the Dominican Republic was known as Santo Domingo, the name of its present capital and its patron saint, Saint Dominic.Hence the residents were called "Dominicanos" (Dominicans).
Africans were initially brought to Dominica through the slave trade. Colonial records indicate multiple countries of origin for the slaves. The records contain data on slave ship ports of embarkation, often the ethnic group of the slaves, the date of arrival in Dominica, the number of enslaved people on board and survival rates, and the boat's name. [1]
African slaves were forced to build a cathedral that in time became the oldest in America. They built their monastery, first hospital and the Alcázar de Colón. In the 1540s, the Spanish authorities ordered the African slaves to build a wall to defend the city from attacks by pirates who ravaged the islands.
Local Dominican civilians were compelled by the army to burn and bury the bodies of the victims, which played a role in the growth of Anti-Hatianism. The rise of the sugar-plantation economy in the early twentieth century, as US sugar firms in the Dominican Republic imported Haitian laborers, led to opposition by the Black sub-proletariat.
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 ...
Most slaves who came to Saint-Domingue worked in fields or shops; younger slaves could become household servants, and old 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 liberté des savanes (savannah liberty), a sort of freedom with ...
These enslaved people were forced to work on farms, in households, and in other industries and many were subjected to harsh conditions and treatment. The intermixing among European men and Spanish and Portuguese women's descendants are part of the diverse Coloured communities in South Africa.