Slave revolt led by Toussaint L'Ouverture in Santo Domingo

Historical Context Essay

Robert Clark (The Literary Encyclopedia)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.3: Hispanic Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Domains

Civil Wars, Revolutions and Insurrections

Dates

Date of occurrence 1791-08-22-1794

Places

Dominican Republic (Location)
Haiti (Location)

Historical Context

The island of Hispaniola (now divided between Haiti in the west and the Dominican Republic to the east) is the second largest in the West Indies. It takes its name from “La Isla Espanola”, conferred on it by Columbus during his first voyage to the Americas in 1492. The main city on the south-east coast is called Santo Domingo and it became the initial centre of Spanish colonization in the Caribbean. The city of Santo Domingo received the first cathedral and monastery in the Americas, and the first university (chartered in 1538). At this time the whole island was generally called Santo Domingo. From the later sixteenth century, as Spanish interest transferred to exploiting the riches of Mexico a…

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Citation: Clark, Robert. "Slave revolt led by Toussaint L'Ouverture in Santo Domingo". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 April 2008 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=5507, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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