Anybody ever studied Slavery in the Hispanola?

[Positive Posting]

So how come one side of the island embraced their African roots (Haiti) and the other side denied it (DR)

The French were more brutal than the Spanish.

A lot of what you write is true and fair.
I would just add that one thing Americans simply don't understand is that the American experience with racism is almost purely about color.
Black Americans and White Americans. And that's the identity.

But for many other countries in the Caribbean and South America, it's not that way.
Black people in DR or Haiti or Brazil or Colombia don't primarily identify as black. They identify as their nationality. And that's what Americans will never understand. So you get these Americans speaking about a dynamic under an American context that simply does not apply.

Thanks @Remote , what is your response to someone like @Henri Christophe who clearly does not see it that way. Can you expand on your statement a bit more. Thank you for taking the time to provide your insight.

 

[Jean Jacket]

When people say Dominicans or black latins are racists against blacks I don’t think they understand


Many black people from Spanish speaking Caribbean, Central American and South American nations have had harsh and cruel conditioning forced upon them in every imaginable way and for generations that being black is bad, and that being of African descent is bad, in every conceivable way.

This indoctrination was not limited to the many cruelties of slavery, but extended into constant cultural appropriation, ridicule, harassment, bullying, etc.

Many Spanish speaking dark skinned Caribbean, Central and South American blacks were virtually outcasts in their own countries of birth, subject to a broad range of humiliating experiences, stereotypes, etc., all too often culminating in physical attack, assault, violation, and even murder.

To my knowledge, no Spanish speaking nation in the Western Hemisphere ever had a civil rights black upliftment/power movement equivalent to the US civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Thus, to this day, many of these issues remain deeply ingrained in the collective psyche of these societies and thus completely unresolved.

In no way is being racist good or should be accepted. But you have to understand what these people have been through that could of made a whole nation and a whole culture and background this way and this doesn’t get talked about at all.

Stop making excuses for how they treat Haitians.

They should know how it feels and not treat their fellow man that way.

Weak shyt.

 

[Fillerguy]

I've study this quite a bit, in college and in my free time. I wouldn't say its the worse but slavery in Hispaniola/Haiti is one of the most documented in the New World. Hispaniola was argubly the most profitable New World colony for several hundred years. It was even more valuable than the 13 colonies for a time. Its low key is still incredibly rich with resources.


I advise ppl to start with the book below. Its written cac Priest who was taken aback about the treatment of the natives. Historians believe this account helped inspire Europeans to look to African for slaves labor.

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies - Wikipedia

 

[Positive Posting]

Stop making excuses for how they treat Haitians.

They should know how it feels and not treat their fellow man that way.

Weak shyt.

not coding it, but you gotta understand the history to understand them.