West Indian uprisings
At a glance:
- Series: Racial and Ethnic Relations in America
- Categories: Military History, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History, American Pre-Colonial History (to 1606)
- Geographical Location: West Indies
- Date: 1495-c. 1510
Article abstract: Spanish policy of coopting native West Indians ultimately resulted in rebellion.
The island of Hispaniola (today, the two independent states of Haiti and the Dominican Republic) was the key site of the Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Historians have not only Columbus's own account of contacts with the native inhabitants of the Caribbean islands but also a number of descriptions by other explorers and missionaries who soon came to these early outposts in the Western Hemisphere. These accounts tended from the outset to...
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