African maroon resistance at Hispaniola heavily challenged European conquest
Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 15:40
in Paleontology & Archaeology
African resistance strongly shaped Spanish Hispaniola of the 1500s— now the island home to Haiti and the Dominican Republic—but historians have often considered that resistance to be a byproduct of Spanish colonialism and its reliance on slavery, according to a University of Kansas historian who studies the development of race in Latin America.