{"id":2252,"date":"2025-02-07T02:34:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T02:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2025-02-16T05:03:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T05:03:56","slug":"about-03-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/summaries\/about-03-silence","title":{"rendered":"A silenced history"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2252\" class=\"elementor elementor-2252\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fcab920 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fcab920\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a76e748 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a76e748\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">A silenced history<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f4a5ad5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f4a5ad5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Despite the fact that La Espa\u00f1ola (also called Santo Domingo by extension of its colonial capital\u2019s name) was what scholar Silvio Torres-Saillant has called \u201cthe cradle of Blackness in the Americas,\u201d<a class=\"footnotes-tooltip tooltip tooltipstered\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/summaries\/about-03-silence\/#footer_footnote_1\" name=\"footnote_1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0the Western academy until very recently has almost completely overlooked this early history of the Black experience in the New World Black at the dawn of modernity. The\u00a0prevailing scholarship has often\u00a0neglected the fact that both the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and the New World Black slavery in general, as conventionally understood, began in this first European settlement of the Americas, expanding from there as a fundamental\u00a0feature of the society based on domination and colonization that was subsequently imposed on\u00a0most of the continent.<\/p><p>Fittingly, one of the main goals of\u00a0<em>First Blacks in the Americas<\/em>\u00a0is to contribute to filling the void that exists in Atlantic and New World Black studies by uncovering the recorded history of the first generations of Blacks that\u00a0lived in the continent in modern times, especially, though not exclusively, as it related to the first development of an early plantation economy on its territories. As the project\u2019s construction unfolds and more historical data is collected on these beginnings of the recorded presence of Black peoples in the continent, an attempt will be made to shed additional light in this educational platform on understanding the ways that constructions of social class, gender, ethnicity and others intersected with race and created particular dynamics for the sixteenth-century Afro-descendants of La Espa\u00f1ola.<\/p><hr \/><p><a class=\"footnote_anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210617223850\/http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/summaries\/about-03-silence\/#footnote_1\" name=\"footer_footnote_1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"pagination\"><a href=\"http:\/\/academicworks.cuny.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&amp;context=dsi_pubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Torres-Saillant, Silvio.\u00a0<em>Introduction to Dominican Blackness<\/em>. 2nd ed. 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