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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.
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