#TainoHistory: Hatuey and The Africans

A #Taino chief during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

- He not only united Africans and Indigenous people against the invaders.

- He initiated the first pan-American resistance struggle."

zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/hatu…
"For gold, slaves, and land they fight and kill; for these they persecute us and that is why we have to throw them into the sea. . . .”

— Taíno Leader Hatuey
Video up for the NAIC 3rd Annual Symposium Intro & Tekina-eirú Maynard on #taino history. vimeo.com/91961369 #indigenous #tainohistory
The Revolt of #Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America

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

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