Few traveling to Samana today, where the French migration seems to prevail, are aware of the American heritage that marked the peninsula in the 1800s.
A story in The New York Times, reminds all of the mark left in Samana by the group of more than 300 African-Americans who chartered a boat to Samana in 1824 from Philadelphia. The settlers brought their songs and their religion that today is being kept alive by a few descendants and can be experienced with a Sunday visit to La Churcha, the wooden church in Samana city, the capital of the province-peninsula.
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New York Times
4 December 2018
