A black majority in La Española by the end of 16th century By 1606, after the forced and traumatic relocation of the colony’s western area’s population to eastern areas of La

Official slave trade diminished in La Española after the 1560s We know of no published information about the arrival of Blacks in La Española during the fifteen years that followed after 1560.

The sugar business accelerated the arrival of blacks By 1520 a gold mining crisis was beginning in the colony of La Española, with a severe drop in production resulting from the rapid

“Legal” and “illegal” slave trade As the early importing of enslaved Blacks into La Española continued during the second decade of Spanish colonization, the year 1506 marked the first recorded

Ladinos and bozales The Christianized Blacks mentioned in the sixteenth-century documents issued in Spain, La Española and the rest of the Spanish empire were known as ladinos, and the term referred

Links In this sub-section, a list of active links will be found connecting to other online resources addressing the issues of Blackness and/or slavery in the Americas. UNIVERSITY-BASED DEPARTMENTS, CENTERS

Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning Tool The Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning Tool is a unique interactive online platform developed by the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute with the support of

Bibliography This section includes a list of books, book chapters, articles and other sources related directly and indirectly to La Española’s Black population in the sixteehth century. Some items listed

Articles – General Sources Andújar Castillo, Francisco. “Sobre las condiciones de vida de los esclavos en la España Moderna. Una revisión crítica.” Chronica Nova 26 (1999): 7-36. Armas de, Antonio Rumeu. “Los

Book Chapters – General Sources Armanteros Martínez, Iván. “Towards the Atlantic Mediterranean. Catalan Participation in the Early Arlantic Slave Trade (Late Fifteenth-Early Sixteenth Century).” In Schiavitù e servaggio nell’economia europea, secc. XI-XVIII / Serfdom and Slavery in the