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1501
ARRIVAL OF AFRICANS IN AMERICA
Arrival of Africans in America. At this time there were already wealthy families in Spain who had black African slaves that they used as servants or for heavy labor. In this way slaves came to the New World as well, with their wealthy masters. They came to the New World from some large ports in Spain with large concentrations of black Africans, such as Seville, Cadiz, Huelva and also Valencia. And they entered America through the largest entrances to the New World. -
1533
FIRST LEAKS
A good number of slaves brought by Pedro de Heredia, founder of Cartagena, fled to the mountainous areas of the province. -
CONSTRUCTION OF PALENQUES OF MAROON LEADERS
En América, se llamó cimarrón a los esclavos rebeldes, algunos de ellos fugitivos, que llevaban una vida de libertad en rincones apartados (de las ciudades o en el campo) denominados palenques o quilombos. Posteriormente, en Cuba se adoptó preferiblemente el vocablo jíbaro para referirse a los cimarrones -
RECOGNIZE SAN BASILIO DE PALENQUE LIKE AS FREE TOWN
The Maroon slave army led by Benkos Biohó (Domingo Biohó, by his Spanish name), achieved in 1793 the signing of the Entente cordiale, one of the first peace treaties in the history of Colombia and Latin America. “This document recognizes the Palenqueros as the first autonomous and sovereign free people. -
INDEPENDENCE OF CARTAGENA
From 1811 to 1814 the blacks will be royalists and from 1815 onwards they will be patriots”. The slaves were at first royalists, since the Spaniards were the first to recognize their military potential and the first to offer them freedom in exchange for their service in the army and because their enemies, the slaveholders, were in the patriot ranks. -
FREEDOM OF THE WOMB LAW
It was a legal principle that was implemented in the countries that abolished slavery, which consisted of granting freedom to children born of slaves. -
END OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA
The process of abolishing slavery in Latin America was long, arduous and not without unfair negotiations between abolitionist leaders and the economic powers of the region. -
FIRST CONGRESS OF THE BLACK OF THE AMERICAS
They were held in Cali, Panama and Brazil. Intellectuals and representatives of black organizations in the Americas carried out, for the first time, a "multidisciplinary examination of the continental problem of the social reality and culture of Africans and their descendants in the Americas". -
CONSTITUTION OF 1991
This new constitution created and recognize more rights for differents communities.