Articles – Sources Related to La Española Altman, Ida. “Marriage, Family, and Ethnicity in the Early Spanish Caribbean.”The William and Mary Quarterly 70.2 (April 2013): 225-250. Andrés-Gallego, José. “Macro y microhistoria en

Book Chapters – Sources Related to La Española Almedia Mendes, Antonio De. “The Foundations of the System: A Reassessment of the Slave Trade to the Spanish Americans in the Sixteenth

Foundational scholarship on Dominican blackness Since the 1960s some scholars, most of them Dominican, have been making an important contribution to the vindication and dissemination of the study and public

Books – Sources Related to La Española Albert Batista, Celsa. Los africanos y nuestra isla: historia, cultura e identidad. Santo Domingo: Instituto Dominicano Estudios Africanos y Asiáticos Sebastián Lemba, 2001. Albert

Manumission as a tool of slavery In modern times in the Western world, “manumission” was the word used to refer to the occasional practice by slave masters or owners granting

A century between resistance and adaptation The Black Africans who were brought into La Española as enslaved laborers in the sixteenth century began to resist slavery as soon as they

The fundamental role of blacks in La Española’s economy From early on Black Africans performed a fundamental role in the functioning and the survival of La Española as a viable

Black women, present in La Española as early as black men The history of Black women in sixteenth-century La Española is one of the least researched aspects of the early history of

Credits FIRST BLACKS IN THE AMERICAS TEAM Ramona Hernández, Ph.D Director, CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Professor of Sociology, The City College of New York 212.650.7496 [email protected] Sarah Aponte, M.L.S., M.S.Ed.

Both free and enslaved blacks arrived since early on The first person of African descent known to have arrived in La Española in modern times was a Juan Moreno or