Europeans terrorized members of the Taino, Ciguayo, and Macorix tribes, robbing, beating them and even abducting their people.
Columbus returns in 1493 and founded the first city, La Isabela. In 1496 his brother Bartholome founded Santo Domingo, the new capital.
There was 400,000 Tainos on the island who were enslaved, working in gold mines, servicing the settlers, and more. Mistreatment, oppression, forced labor, starvation, disease, and mass killings decimated the Taino population. In 1508 there were only 50,000 and in 1535, 6,000 had survived.
From the Canary Island of sugar cane became the main industry of Rep. Dominicana until today is imported. The labor of the indigenous was insufficient, for that reason the Spanish Crown authorizes the importation of African slaves, 250 ladino blacks were the first to arrive; This not only brought new immigration labor brought in traditions, customs that have shaped the idiosyncrasy and culture on the island.
In 1522 Santo Domingo sees the first major slave
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Santo Domingo managed to maintain some legal exports, though piracy gripped Santo Domingo, Sir Francis Drake in 1586 a famous "Corsair" English which will collect a ransom to Spain for the return of the island. But Spain was unhappy with trade policies established governor Antonio Osorio, to the point that period is known as "The devastation of Osorio" by the disastrous measures, more than half of the relocated settlers died of starvation or