The exhibition “Slavery and the Cultural Heritage of Africa in the Caribbean” opens for the general public from 18 October to 25 October 2022. The exhibition tells the story of Africans in the Dominican Republic in colonial times. The Spanish entity CSIC presents the exhibition in collaboration with the Center for Caribbean Studies of the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra (PUCMM).
The exhibition tells the story of the slave trade, the Africans who were brought to work, lived, and left a legacy in the country. More than ten million Africans came to the Americas from Africa in the colonization times.
Here in the Dominican Republic, known as Santo Domingo during colonial times, slavery had a much lesser impact than on the western part of the island, Haiti or in Brazil or Cuba. This was mainly due to the high cost of an enslaved person in the colony that lived in abject poverty during most of the colonial times.
The exhibition offers the opportunity to learn of the legacy the African slaves left here in the Caribbean.
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El Caribe
17 October 2022