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Local December 26, 2021 | 11:34 am

America’s first black slave rebellion turns 500 years today

Santo Domingo.– On the second day of Christmas in 1521, in one of the first sugar mills established in the New World, a group of black slaves rose up against their masters in what was the first rebellion of African slaves in America, a fact somehow unknown 500 years later despite its consequences. There are few certainties beyond the fact that it occurred in the current Dominican Republic, in... Read more