Outside Affiliate Event
Organizer: CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at City College- NY
The Struggle for Freedom in La Española: Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the First Slave Revolt in the Americas
December 2 & 3, 2021 | Virtual Conference
REGISTRATION: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-struggle-for-freedom-in-la-espanola-virtual-conference-tickets-207524319827
HONORING CARLOS ESTEBAN DEIVE: The Man and his Legacy
On the second day of Christmas in December of 1521, African Black enslaved people near Santo Domingo City broke free from their captivity, took to the streets, taking the lives of Spanish colonists that kept them in bondage and bought them as commodities. Consequently, the Spanish authorities issued laws to punish the rebels and prevent Black people from attempting to rise up again for their freedom. The Santo Domingo Slave Revolt of 1521 and the Slave Laws of 1522 have been recorded as the first of their kind in the history of the Americas. It is the plantation of Diego Colón, the son of Cristóbal Colón and Viceroy of the Indies, located on the north-west of today’s Santo Domingo Province, that became the scenario for the historic insurgence. The enraged mob moved westward along the Nigua River basin to Azua, another hub of early plantation slavery, planting terror on their path in an unbridled race away from evil. The Struggle for Freedom in La Española: Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the First Slave Revolt in the Americas conference seeks to remember and honor the 500th anniversary of such a transcendental moment that marked forever the history of resistance of Black people in the New World.
Our intention with this multi-disciplinary conference is to have a conversation from multiple angles regarding the legacy of this open act of defiance, violation of norms, and confrontation against the Spanish empire. Specifically, we intend to create a lineal vision connecting the beginning of the resistance in the Americas, with its present and its future, as it relates to African Black people. More broadly, we want to explore the implications of that moment in the history of the world today, by re-creating in our imagination what the slaves did, and, through visualizing the present and the future, what is to be done, as Black people and other marginalized groups continue their quest for the right to self-determination and to resist all kinds of oppression.
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Organizer: CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at City College- NY - Contact: [email protected] or [email protected]
Founded in 1992 and housed at The City College of New York, the Dominican Studies Institute of the City University of New York (CUNY DSI) is the nation’s first, university-based research institute devoted to the study of people of Dominican descent in the United States and other parts of the world. CUNY DSI’s mission is to produce and disseminate research and scholarship about Dominicans and about the Dominican Republic. The Institute houses the Dominican Archives and the Dominican Library, the first and only institutions in the United States collecting primary and secondary source material about Dominicans. In 2010, the Institute opened the doors of its Archives and Library facility to exhibitions of art by and about people of Dominican descent, becoming the first major institution in New York City to devote its exhibition space exclusively to such artwork.
Website: https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/dsi
More information :
The Santo Domingo Slave Revolt of 1521 and the Slave Laws of 1522: Black Slavery and Black Resistance in the Early Colonial Americas
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/dsi_pubs/23/
