Enslaved New World illuminates sixteenth-century Santo Domingo as the site of the Americas' earliest plantation and slave society, and where a collective White identity emerged. Yet Santo Domingo was also home, Turits shows, to widespread continual flight from bondage and an ecology providing relatively easy refuge. This transformed the colony into a land in which predominantly self-emancipated Black people became the largest population group by the late seventeenth century, 150 years before slavery's abolition. Afterwards, slavery and legal racial hierarchy persisted, but the White elite often remained too poor and weak to overcome resistance and competing constructs of status and color emerged. By focusing on Santo Domingo's understudied African-descended majority population within novel frameworks, Turits opens up new understandings of Dominican history, slavery's racialization, race and racism's historical contingency, and an extraordinary Afro-American trajectory of resistance.
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978-1-009-72145-5 (9781009721455)
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Richard Lee Turits is a professor of History, Africana Studies, and Latin American Studies at William & Mary. He is the author of Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History; Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean (with Laurent Dubois), and Terreurs de frontiere: Le massacre des Haitiens en Republique Dominicaine en 1937 (with Lauren Derby).
Introduction; 1. Slavery's transformation begins: Santo Domingo in the sixteenth century; 2. Becoming a world of Black and White: the Americas' first plantation society; 3. The enslaved strike back: Santo Domingo's long counter-plantation war; 4. Foiling Spanish supremacy: the pursuit of freedom in the century before abolition; 5. 'As if there were no more classes than free or slave': the problem of race in the eighteenth century; Epilogue: Freedom; Index.
