{"id":2633,"date":"2025-02-16T16:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T16:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2025-02-16T16:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T16:45:27","slug":"arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks","title":{"rendered":"El negocio del az\u00facar aceler\u00f3 la llegada de negros"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2633\" class=\"elementor elementor-2633\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e28f5fb e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e28f5fb\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ee125e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5ee125e\" 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\">El negocio del az\u00facar aceler\u00f3 la llegada de negros<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-04ba6fd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"04ba6fd\" 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><a href=\"http:\/\/academicworks.cuny.edu\/dsi_arch_first\/98\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2636\" src=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSI0027_y3W8e5K-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSI0027_y3W8e5K-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSI0027_y3W8e5K-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSI0027_y3W8e5K-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSI0027_y3W8e5K-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSI0027_y3W8e5K-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSI0027_y3W8e5K-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSI0027_y3W8e5K-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a>Hacia 1520 se iniciaba una crisis de miner\u00eda de oro en la colonia de La Espa\u00f1ola, con una severa ca\u00edda en la producci\u00f3n como resultado de la r\u00e1pida disminuci\u00f3n de la poblaci\u00f3n ind\u00edgena, la intervenci\u00f3n de la Corona que redujo el control directo de los trabajadores ind\u00edgenas sobrevivientes por parte de la\u00a0<em>encomenderos<\/em>, y una disminuci\u00f3n del capital monetario disponible para financiarlo. Los mineros soportaron la peor carga, a menudo endeud\u00e1ndose o yendo a la c\u00e1rcel, mientras que la Corona todav\u00eda pod\u00eda recaudar impuestos de una forma u otra.<a class=\"footnotes-tooltip tooltip tooltipstered\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footer_footnote_1\" name=\"footnote_1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0Y como una nueva rama alternativa de actividad comercial, la industria de la ca\u00f1a de az\u00facar, controlada por unos pocos hombres poderosos, en su mayor\u00eda locales, se expandi\u00f3, y comenzaron a importarse esclavos africanos en mayores cantidades.<a class=\"footnotes-tooltip tooltip tooltipstered\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footer_footnote_2\" name=\"footnote_2\">[2]<\/a><\/p><p>Ese mismo a\u00f1o,\u00a0<em>oidor<\/em>\u00a0Figueroa reported that 40\u00a0<em>ingenios<\/em>\u00a0o las plantaciones azucareras ya estaban en proceso de construcci\u00f3n. Aunque la cifra pueda parecer exagerada a la luz de la cifra de 35\u00a0<em>ingenios<\/em>\u00a0registrado casi tres d\u00e9cadas despu\u00e9s (exactamente en 1548), da testimonio de la expansi\u00f3n de la industria azucarera en La Espa\u00f1ola a principios de la d\u00e9cada de 1520 y el aumento sostenido en la llegada de poblaci\u00f3n negra que, despu\u00e9s de reemplazar a los trabajadores ind\u00edgenas en la industria minera del oro, se estaban convirtiendo en la principal fuente de mano de obra para los negocios azucareros y agr\u00edcolas.<a class=\"footnotes-tooltip tooltip tooltipstered\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footer_footnote_3\" name=\"footnote_3\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0El declive demogr\u00e1fico de los colonos europeos que se estaba produciendo en la isla fue abordado en comunicaciones al monarca espa\u00f1ol en 1528 por los funcionarios Zuazo y Espinosa, quienes explicaron que cinco pueblos hab\u00edan desaparecido de la isla de La Espa\u00f1ola como resultado del \u00e9xodo de los colonos.\u00a0<a class=\"footnotes-tooltip tooltip tooltipstered\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footer_footnote_4\" name=\"footnote_4\">[4]<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/manuscripts\/fb-primary-025-manuscript\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(See Manuscript No. 025)<\/a>.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/jcb.lunaimaging.com\/luna\/servlet\/detail\/JCB~1~1~2026~3080003?qvq=q%3Anigritae%2C%2Btheodor%2Bde%2Bbry%3Blc%3AJCB~1~1%2CJCBBOOKS~1~1%2CJCBMAPS~1~1%2CJCBMAPS~2~2%2CJCBMAPS~3~3&amp;mi=1&amp;trs=4\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2635 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/03084003-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/03084003-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/03084003-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/03084003-768x1161.jpg 768w, https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/03084003-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/03084003-600x907.jpg 600w, https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/03084003.jpg 1016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a>Incluso aquellos en La Espa\u00f1ola que todav\u00eda defend\u00edan la continuaci\u00f3n de los esfuerzos de extracci\u00f3n de oro en la colonia ahora propon\u00edan que estos se hicieran utilizando mano de obra negra esclavizada. En noviembre de 1526, el rey Carlos I, al decretar la obligaci\u00f3n de pagar un salario a los ind\u00edgenas como trabajadores libres, intent\u00f3 fomentar la explotaci\u00f3n de las minas de oro, ordenando que se permitiera la entrada a los territorios coloniales a los vasallos de todos sus estados, excepto Castilla. En diciembre decret\u00f3 la libertad de los colonos para intentar la miner\u00eda donde quisieran en la colonia. Y en marzo de 1528, el presidente de la\u00a0<em>Audiencia<\/em>\u00a0y el obispo de la iglesia Sebasti\u00e1n Ram\u00edrez Fuenleal escrib\u00eda al Rey inform\u00e1ndole del descenso de la poblaci\u00f3n en varios pueblos de La Espa\u00f1ola, y recomendando que se enviaran nuevas cohortes de familias de colonos, incluso desde Portugal y los Pa\u00edses Bajos, para seguir intentando explotar las minas, y que a cada familia se le otorgaran tres negros para que trabajaran en las minas para ellos.\u00a0<a class=\"footnotes-tooltip tooltip tooltipstered\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footer_footnote_5\" name=\"footnote_5\">[5]<\/a><\/p><p>Otra propuesta presentada al rey espa\u00f1ol desde La Espa\u00f1ola durante este per\u00edodo que indica el af\u00e1n de los colonos por obtener mano de obra negra esclavizada suger\u00eda la concesi\u00f3n de tierras en la colonia a personas pobres de los territorios de la Corona, as\u00ed como de posesiones portuguesas como las islas de Madeira y Cabo Verde, junto con el derecho a llevar a la isla con ellos a negros esclavizados exentos de impuestos para trabajar en las minas o en la agricultura, y la aprobaci\u00f3n de una ley que otorgara la libertad a estos despu\u00e9s de quince a\u00f1os de servicio sin huir o despu\u00e9s de extraer un total de 15\u00a0<em>marcos<\/em>\u00a0de oro para sus amos.<a class=\"footnotes-tooltip tooltip tooltipstered\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footer_footnote_6\" name=\"footnote_6\">[6]<\/a><\/p><p>A principios de la d\u00e9cada de 1530 hubo un aumento moment\u00e1neo en la producci\u00f3n de oro en La Espa\u00f1ola que, seg\u00fan Deive, revela \u201cla creciente importancia de los negros en el trabajo de las minas\u201d de la colonia como lo demuestra un informe de julio de 1531 de las autoridades coloniales locales.<a class=\"footnotes-tooltip tooltip tooltipstered\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footer_footnote_7\" name=\"footnote_7\">[7]<\/a>\u00a0La introducci\u00f3n masiva de esclavos negros en la isla se tradujo, en la d\u00e9cada de 1530, en un aumento de la producci\u00f3n de oro, pero la crisis reapareci\u00f3 cuando ces\u00f3 la llegada de estos negros, acompa\u00f1ada de la muerte de muchos por enfermedades, dolencias de diversos tipos o agotamiento laboral. Sabemos que en 1531 las autoridades coloniales locales solicitaron a la Corona dos veces permiso para permitir la libre importaci\u00f3n de esclavos negros, pero la Corona no parece haber respondido con decisi\u00f3n a esta solicitud.<a class=\"footnotes-tooltip tooltip tooltipstered\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footer_footnote_8\" name=\"footnote_8\">[8]<\/a><\/p><p>Aproximadamente una d\u00e9cada despu\u00e9s, y a pesar de las prohibiciones reales previas, varios africanos de origen morisco hab\u00edan llegado a las colonias espa\u00f1olas como esclavos y algunos de ellos terminaron en La Espa\u00f1ola. En 1543, Carlos I emiti\u00f3 una orden para que todos los moros esclavizados presentes en las colonias fueran expulsados, lo que parece proporcionar evidencia de que hab\u00eda al menos algunos en los territorios americanos.<a class=\"footnotes-tooltip tooltip tooltipstered\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footer_footnote_9\" name=\"footnote_9\">[9]<\/a>\u00a0M\u00e1s concretamente, hay una carta de 1550 de las autoridades locales de Santo Domingo al rey en la que se menciona la presencia de al menos 100 moros esclavizados en La Espa\u00f1ola en ese momento y se le pide al rey que los exima de la prohibici\u00f3n de 1543. Seg\u00fan se informa, la carta afirmaba que \"el n\u00famero de moros libres y esclavos\u00a0<em>Moriscos<\/em>, introducidos unos con licencia y otros sin ella, tuvo poca importancia en la isla, pues en la capital apenas llegaban a cien y adem\u00e1s eran muy \u00fatiles pues desempe\u00f1aban diversos oficios\u201d. El Rey accedi\u00f3 a la petici\u00f3n con la condici\u00f3n de que a los esclavos no se les permitiera salir del lugar.<span class=\"pagination\">Saco, Jos\u00e9 Antonio.\u00a0<em>Historia de la esclavitud de la raza africana en el nuevo mundo y en especial en los pa\u00edses am\u00e9rico-hispanos<\/em>. Habana: Cultural, 1938. Vol. I, p.\u00a0305-306<\/span>)<\/p><p><!--nextpage--><\/p><p>Siete a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, en 1550, el rey Carlos I promulg\u00f3 otra ley que anulaba la prohibici\u00f3n de 1543 de importar moros esclavizados.<a class=\"footnotes-tooltip tooltip tooltipstered\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footer_footnote_10\" name=\"footnote_10\">[10]<\/a>\u00a0lo que puede interpretarse como una indicaci\u00f3n de que para entonces el factor de diferencia religiosa ya no se consideraba una amenaza o que la prohibici\u00f3n puede haber sido considerada contraproducente de alguna manera indeseable.<\/p><p>Y seg\u00fan otro testimonio de mediados del siglo XVI dado por los funcionarios del tesoro colonial de la Corona en Santo Domingo, para entonces los negros esclavizados llegaban a La Espa\u00f1ola a un ritmo de 2.000 cada a\u00f1o.\u00a0<a class=\"footnotes-tooltip tooltip tooltipstered\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footer_footnote_11\" name=\"footnote_11\">[11]<\/a>\u00a0Esto habr\u00eda supuesto una entrada de 20.000 esclavos tan solo en los cinco a\u00f1os anteriores y los cinco posteriores a esa declaraci\u00f3n. En 1567, (mientras que en Espa\u00f1a el uso de la lengua \u00e1rabe y el atuendo nacional \u00e1rabe estaban prohibidos ese a\u00f1o), en Santo Domingo, \u00abun n\u00famero indeterminado de moros y moras trabajaban en la fortaleza de Santo Domingo a quienes el artillero Antonio G\u00f3mez, encargado de la obra, pagaba una\u00a0<em>tom\u00edn<\/em>\u00a0por d\u00eda para su sustento\u201d. Y dos a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, en 1569, una carta del Ayuntamiento de Santo Domingo anunci\u00f3 que regularmente entraban a la isla entre 1.500 y 2.000 moriscos cada a\u00f1o.<a class=\"footnotes-tooltip tooltip tooltipstered\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footer_footnote_12\" name=\"footnote_12\">[12]<\/a><\/p><hr \/><p><a class=\"footnote_anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footnote_1\" name=\"footer_footnote_1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0 Carlos Esteban Deive,\u00a0<em>La Esclavitud del negro en Santo Domingo<\/em>, Vol. I, p. 37.<\/p><p><a class=\"footnote_anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footnote_2\" name=\"footer_footnote_2\">[2]<\/a>\u00a0 \u201cLa entrada masiva de africanos se har\u00e1 efectiva a partir de 1520, con la expansi\u00f3n de la industria azucarera y en un momento en que la despoblaci\u00f3n nativa comenzaba a sentirse de manera definitiva.\u201d Carlos Esteban Deive,\u00a0<em>La Esclavitud del negro en Santo Domingo<\/em>, Vol. I, p\u00e1g. 26. Franklin Franco Pichardo sostiene que para 1518 ya hab\u00eda comenzado la importaci\u00f3n a gran escala de esclavos africanos y la proliferaci\u00f3n de la producci\u00f3n azucarera, pues para 1520 la isla ya contaba con 24 ingenios y 4 trapiches y estos requer\u00edan de mano de obra para funcionar. V\u00e9ase Franklin Franco Pichardo,\u00a0<em>Historia del pueblo dominicano.\u00a0<\/em>Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Ediciones del Instituto del Libro, 1992.\u00a0Vol. I, p. 67.<\/p><p><a class=\"footnote_anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footnote_3\" name=\"footer_footnote_3\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0 Carlos Esteban Deive,\u00a0<em>La esclavitud del negro en Santo Domingo<\/em>, Vol. I, p. 26 and 28-29.<\/p><p><a class=\"footnote_anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footnote_4\" name=\"footer_footnote_4\">[4]<\/a>\u00a0 Esta carta tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 disponible en la Colecci\u00f3n Obadiah Rich de la Biblioteca P\u00fablica de Nueva York, Colecci\u00f3n Juan Bautista Mu\u00f1oz, Reel 4, f. 214r.<\/p><p><a class=\"footnote_anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footnote_5\" name=\"footer_footnote_5\">[5]<\/a>\u00a0 Carlos Esteban Deive,\u00a0<em>La Esclavitud del negro en Santo Domingo<\/em>, Vol. I, p. 37.<\/p><p><a class=\"footnote_anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footnote_6\" name=\"footer_footnote_6\">[6]<\/a>\u00a0 Serrano y Sanz, DCVIII-DCXIX. Cited in\u00a0Deive,\u00a0<em>La esclavitud del negro en Santo Domingo<\/em>, Vol. I, p. 37-38. Deive does not give a specific date, but it can be inferred that he is referring to the years 1528 and 1531.\u00a0<\/p><p><a class=\"footnote_anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footnote_7\" name=\"footer_footnote_7\">[7]<\/a>\u00a0 Carlos Esteban Deive,\u00a0<em>La esclavitud del negro en Santo Domingo<\/em>, Vol. I, p. 39.<\/p><p><a class=\"footnote_anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footnote_8\" name=\"footer_footnote_8\">[8]<\/a>\u00a0 Carlos Esteban Deive,\u00a0<em>La esclavitud del negro en Santo Domingo<\/em>, Vol. I, p. 40.<\/p><p><a class=\"footnote_anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footnote_9\" name=\"footer_footnote_9\">[9]<\/a>\u00a0 The exact date of the letter was August 14, 1543.<\/p><p><a class=\"footnote_anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footnote_10\" name=\"footer_footnote_10\">[10]<\/a>\u00a0 La fecha exacta de la comunicaci\u00f3n es el 13 de noviembre de 1550. Carlos Esteban Deive,\u00a0<em>La esclavitud del negro en Santo Domingo<\/em>, Vol. I, p. 20.<\/p><p><a class=\"footnote_anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footnote_11\" name=\"footer_footnote_11\">[11]<\/a>\u00a0 Carlos Esteban Deive,\u00a0<em>La esclavitud del negro en Santo Domingo<\/em>, Vol. I, 1980, p. 88.<\/p><p><a class=\"footnote_anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/spn\/summaries\/arrival-04-sugar-accelerated-imports-of-blacks\/#footnote_12\" name=\"footer_footnote_12\">[12]<\/a>\u00a0 Utrera, 1978, II:12. Cited in\u00a0Deive,\u00a0<em>La esclavitud del negro en Santo Domingo,<\/em>\u00a0Vol. I, 1980, p. 20.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sugar business accelerated the arrival of blacks By 1520 a\u00a0gold mining crisis was beginning in the colony of La Espa\u00f1ola, with a severe drop in\u00a0production resulting from the rapid dwindling of the Indian population,\u00a0intervention by the Crown\u00a0that reduced\u00a0the direct control of the surviving Indian laborers by the\u00a0encomenderos, and\u00a0a\u00a0decrease in\u00a0the currency-capital available to finance it. 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