The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8872811
AutoresIrwin Altman (0000-0003-2510-938X, University of Florida, autor correspondente), Ida Altman
Ano2007
Volume63
Fascículo4
Páginas587-614
Data de publicação2007-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-1615 • E-ISSN: 1533-6247
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/tam.2007.0052
OpenAlexW2042664393
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências 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