Post by abercrombie on Jun 16, 2009 0:12:48 GMT -5
Segun este gringo, vinieron alrededor de 50,000 negros a El Salvador en la epoca de la colonia entre 1540 y algo.
Interesante el articulo.
Jaja somos "Mestizo Lite"
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The declining native American population might also have influenced a Royal Ordinance issued in 1541 that gave the Spanish land owners and miners permission to import African slaves into El Salvador. The following year, a Royal Ordinance known as the New Laws ended the forced laboring of native Americans in the Spanish colonies. The New Laws did not officially come into effect in El Salvador until 1548 when the president of the “Jurisdiction of Los Confines” (which included El Salvador) freed all native slaves in the country and recommended that more Africans be brought to El Salvador to take the place of those who had been freed. Over the next seventy-five years upwards of 10,000 Africans were brought to work on the haciendas and in the mines of El Salvador. Many died without leaving descendants, others however left their ethnic and cultural imprint upon the ethnically mixed population.
During the 1540’s and 50’s most slaves in El Salvador were used in local mining operations. Latter, from the 1570’s through the middle of the 18th century indigo (a blue dye) became an important export and both Africans and natives were used as laborers on plantations. It proved rather expensive to import slaves into El Salvador to harvest indigo during its short two-month season and this reduced large numbers of slaves from ever being brought into the country. Despite this, in several towns and cities Africans made up an important part of the population during the colonial era.
In 1635 the town of San Vicente was established by Spanish colonists and became an important center for the indigo trade. African slaves were brought here to work on nearby plantations. Several other towns also had African communities: Zacatecoluca (south of San Salvador), Chinameca (west of San Miguel), and Ahuachapan and Sonsonate (both west of San Salvador) all had sizable African populations at one time. The gold mines in the area around San Miguel were worked by Africans during the 1540’s and ‘50s, Santa Ana and the capital San Salvador also had its slave, “free” and “mulatto” communities. Slaves were introduced throughout the country to do the labor of a declining and “protected” native population.
With the mixing of Spanish, African and native there arose free “mulatto” and “zambo” communities in a number of towns. Zambos are persons of mixed native American and African ancestry. Some slaves attempted to gain their freedom by marrying into the native population. Laws were passed by the Spanish to prevent such Afro-Amerindian unions, but the mixing of the two groups could not be prevented. Slaves continued to marry natives with the idea that they might gain freedom, if not for themselves, then for their racially mixed offspring. The children of such unions were free under Spanish law.
Interesante el articulo.
Jaja somos "Mestizo Lite"
www.bjmjr.net/afromestizo/el_salvador.htm
The declining native American population might also have influenced a Royal Ordinance issued in 1541 that gave the Spanish land owners and miners permission to import African slaves into El Salvador. The following year, a Royal Ordinance known as the New Laws ended the forced laboring of native Americans in the Spanish colonies. The New Laws did not officially come into effect in El Salvador until 1548 when the president of the “Jurisdiction of Los Confines” (which included El Salvador) freed all native slaves in the country and recommended that more Africans be brought to El Salvador to take the place of those who had been freed. Over the next seventy-five years upwards of 10,000 Africans were brought to work on the haciendas and in the mines of El Salvador. Many died without leaving descendants, others however left their ethnic and cultural imprint upon the ethnically mixed population.
During the 1540’s and 50’s most slaves in El Salvador were used in local mining operations. Latter, from the 1570’s through the middle of the 18th century indigo (a blue dye) became an important export and both Africans and natives were used as laborers on plantations. It proved rather expensive to import slaves into El Salvador to harvest indigo during its short two-month season and this reduced large numbers of slaves from ever being brought into the country. Despite this, in several towns and cities Africans made up an important part of the population during the colonial era.
In 1635 the town of San Vicente was established by Spanish colonists and became an important center for the indigo trade. African slaves were brought here to work on nearby plantations. Several other towns also had African communities: Zacatecoluca (south of San Salvador), Chinameca (west of San Miguel), and Ahuachapan and Sonsonate (both west of San Salvador) all had sizable African populations at one time. The gold mines in the area around San Miguel were worked by Africans during the 1540’s and ‘50s, Santa Ana and the capital San Salvador also had its slave, “free” and “mulatto” communities. Slaves were introduced throughout the country to do the labor of a declining and “protected” native population.
With the mixing of Spanish, African and native there arose free “mulatto” and “zambo” communities in a number of towns. Zambos are persons of mixed native American and African ancestry. Some slaves attempted to gain their freedom by marrying into the native population. Laws were passed by the Spanish to prevent such Afro-Amerindian unions, but the mixing of the two groups could not be prevented. Slaves continued to marry natives with the idea that they might gain freedom, if not for themselves, then for their racially mixed offspring. The children of such unions were free under Spanish law.