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🔥 Taino/African History 🔥

"In 1517, a guerrilla war between colonizers and forces was initiated by the Taino leader #Enriquillo. [He] killed Spaniards, devastated farms and took the Africans back with him."

"... and took the Africans back with him."

The Revolt of #Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America

Primary Sources: muse.jhu.edu/article/214822

Miguel de Buría: The Black Puerto Rican King

“In 1553, a cimarrón kingdom was organized in the mines of Buria, in #Venezuela 🇻🇪 led by a former African slave from Puerto Rico known as Negro Miguel or King Miguel.”

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de…

"In 1552, and accompanied by about 50 slaves, Miguel led an insurrection against foreman Diego Hernández de Serpa. Killing a Spaniard and sacking and burning some houses, the group took weapons before fleeing towards the vicinity of the #SanPedro river."

FACT: The Republican Party in #PuertoRico was founded by a black Puerto Rican, Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa. #BlackTwitter

Juan Garrido was an African conquistador who was born in the Kingdom of Kongo, he went to Portugal as a young man.
He married and settled in Mexico City, where he was the first known farmer to have sowed wheat in America.

amazon.com/Garrido-Conqui…

#BHM

In 1538, Garrido provided testimony on his 30 years of service as a conquistador

"I, Juan Garrido, black in color, resident of this city [Mexico], appear before Your Mercy and state that I am in need of providing evidence to the perpetuity of the king.."

... a report on how I served Your Majesty in the conquest and pacification of this New Spain, from the time when the Marqués del Valle [Cortés] entered it; ...

... and in his company I was present at all the invasions and conquests and pacifications which were carried out, a ..

....always with the said Marqués, all of which I did at my own expense without being given either salary or allotment of natives [repartimiento de indios] or anything else. As I am married and a resident of this city, where I have always lived;

I went with the Marqués del Valle to discover the islands which are in that part of the southern sea [the Pacific] where there was much hunger and privation; and I went to discover and pacify the islands of San Juan de Buriquén de Puerto Rico; and also as

.. I went on the pacification and conquest of the island of Cuba with the adelantado Diego Velázquez; in all these ways for thirty years have I served and continue to serve Your Majesty--for these reasons stated above do I petition Your Mercy.

And also because I was the first to have the inspiration to sow wheat here in New Spain and to see if it took; I did this and experimented at my own expense."

Juan Garrido: The first “African American”

kentakepage.com/juan-garrido-t…