This is the first slave uprising in the New World. Hernan Cortez begins conquest of the Aztec Empire.Įnslaved Africans are used as laborers in Puerto Rico, Cuba and Mexico.Īfrican slaves stage a rebellion in Hispaniola. Prior to this time, Africans were brought first to Europe. The first shipload of enslaved Africans directly from Africa arrives in the West Indies. King Charles I of Spain grants the first licenses to import enslaved Africans to the Americas. De Las Casas later regrets his actions and becomes an opponent of slavery. Thirty Africans accompany Vasco Nunez de Balboa on his trip to the Pacific Ocean.īishop Bartolome de Las Casas petitions Spain to allow the importation of twelve enslaved Africans for each household immigrating to America's Spanish colonies. The first enslaved Africans arrive in Hispaniola. The Spanish king allows the introduction of enslaved Africans into Spain's American colonies. The first Africans arrive in Hispaniola with Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus makes his first voyage to the New World opening a vast new empire for plantation slavery.
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