The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8872811
AutoresIrwin Altman (0000-0003-2510-938X, University of Florida, autor de correspondencia), Ida Altman
Año2007
Volumen63
Número4
Páginas587-614
Fecha de publicación2007-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-1615 • E-ISSN: 1533-6247
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/tam.2007.0052
OpenAlexW2042664393
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas18

In 1519 Enrique, one of the few remaining caciques, or indigenous chiefs, of the island of Hispaniola, removed himself and some of his people from the reach of Spanish authority. For nearly a decade and a half he and his followers lived in the remote and barely accessible south-central mountains of his native island, occasionally raiding Spanish settlements for arms and tools and clashing with militia units but for the most part avoiding contact with Spanish society. Enrique eluded the numerous patrols that were sent to eradicate what became a stubbornly persistent locus of defiance of Spanish authority that attracted other discontented residents of the island, including both African and indigenous slaves and servants as well as small numbers of nominally ‘free’ Indians

Ancient history · Archaeology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Historiography · Human settlement · Indigenous · Political science · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History