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America’s first black slave rebellion turns 500 years today<p>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 a sugar exploitation of Viceroy Diego Colón, son of Christopher Columbus, and which gave rise to the first laws on slaves on the continent. The date of the event has recently been corrected, which for centuries was dated 1522, but there have also been divergences among specialists about the place where it occurred, the expert professor in anthropology Carlos Andújar explained […]</p>

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