Tracing The African Roots of Dominicans (African Surnames in Hispaniola)

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  • @christinharrison621
    @christinharrison621 6 місяців тому +12

    As an African, i can tell you that some of the names are African names from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra loane and present day Liberia.
    The name Mandinga, Biafra and Congo are Africans

  • @alexandracruz5243
    @alexandracruz5243 Рік тому +6

    UA-cam suggested me this video today and you won a new subscriber. Thank you very much for the great work. I have trying to find my African ancestors that came to the Dominican Republic during the colonization and this surnames list is a good start point. Where can I find the whole surname list?

  • @selfautonomy7774
    @selfautonomy7774 2 роки тому +17

    Wow brother this is mind blowing truth!!! My father would always tell me things about the Dr but because I was so influence by the Afro centrist growing up I always thought he was lying about certain things , and now I’m coming to find out he wasn’t lying! The Spanish colony of Santo Domingo didn’t have no Jim Crow laws or code noire like Haiti, no sex farms like us etc , white, mixed ,and blacks people working together in ports . Also hospitals, schools, courts, churches, and even went to war I believe against the English buccaneers the entire colony fought , because we were independent and had developed a good relationship with iberian decendants and like you mentioned the noble pacts done and this was going on for 100s of years after those early decade stages of its development. brother I’m actually offended that these Afro centrist tried to make us feel bad for who we are and the fact that we love all aspects of our culture and it doesn’t have to be one sided just because they said!!!!

    • @HispaniolaHistoryChannel
      @HispaniolaHistoryChannel  2 роки тому +9

      Thanks for the feedback, very insightful, and yes... there's a conspiracy against the Dominican republic due to the fact that Dominicans refuse to engage in the "black/white" race politics that the united states tries to impose.

    • @chacesimpson2856
      @chacesimpson2856 Рік тому

      So why do so many Dominicans look down on the darker Dominicans ?? I hate when you Dominicans act like you don't have colorism in your country,its uter bs

    • @akindele13
      @akindele13 Рік тому +1

      ​@@HispaniolaHistoryChannelYou do engage in White/Black politics 😂

    • @_real_dio
      @_real_dio Рік тому +1

      @@akindele13Nah we don’t. Because even within our own families we have different shades. That black/white is purely and American made product. Keep us out of it.

  • @blad170
    @blad170 5 місяців тому +6

    What I love about us Dominicans is our mixed genetics of european spanish, west African and indigenous taino.

    • @aveeva5446
      @aveeva5446 3 місяці тому +1

      🤮

    • @blad170
      @blad170 2 місяці тому

      @@aveeva5446 why you put that emoji out there ? Lol

  • @arethabrown5
    @arethabrown5 5 місяців тому +3

    As a history educator, this motivates me to continue my research!

  • @EdKing-nq6jy
    @EdKing-nq6jy Рік тому +27

    We dominicans know we have sfrican blood we just don't like when afro Americans act like there teaching us something we know & just looking for negative things to say about us & they need to be called out for it

    • @day105
      @day105 Рік тому

      blacks know you know...thats the joke bro...blk americans are not trying to teach you anything..they are laughing at your....i'am a white man & i'am laughing at your people..going around saying you white & indian..bull shit

    • @ccu881
      @ccu881 Рік тому

      I am American & I agree with you 100%.
      The DARK-SKIN Afro-Americans seem to want to "BLACKEN" everybody they can.
      They tend to bully & pick on all Light-skin people, who have absolutely NO VOICE in America.
      *********************
      I, myself, IDENTIFY AS BELIZEAN-AMERICAN because I am Light-skin & MULATA ....and....
      I definitely DO NOT identify as "Black".
      *********************
      I fully support DOMINICANS in their demand for proper RECOGNITION.😢

    • @geraldking9385
      @geraldking9385 9 місяців тому +1

      Majority of yall dominicans pretend yall dont and act like yall a whole nother type of people. News flash, all humans came from african people.

  • @pingueeh
    @pingueeh Рік тому +7

    Hi, very interesting document, it is said that the vast mayority of enslaved people brought to the hispaniola island were from the canary islands, slaves that spoke spanish already and did not tried to escape from their masters,it is also said that spaniards do not broguht so many slaves directly from africa. This may explain why the were not that many revolts in the eastern part of the island.

  • @HispaniolaHistoryChannel
    @HispaniolaHistoryChannel  2 роки тому +6

    In this video I go into the sources to find out how many Africans were in Hispaniola and what were their surnames.

  • @selfautonomy7774
    @selfautonomy7774 Рік тому +11

    Also brother David , the Cocolo migration in the late 18th and early 19th century is important to note , coming from the lesser Antilles islands as they came free to work and mainly resided in San Pedro de macoris, La romana, puerto plata and samana , Most assimilated to the DR culture , and is one of the reasons why the DR got more color later on, that’s very important in understanding that many people don’t know !!

    • @HispaniolaHistoryChannel
      @HispaniolaHistoryChannel  Рік тому +4

      You are right, I have to do a part 2 to this video, thanks for the comment

    • @selfautonomy7774
      @selfautonomy7774 Рік тому +4

      Yes sir , many of them have their surnames in those areas till this day !

    • @ccu881
      @ccu881 Рік тому

      ​​@@selfautonomy7774
      Who cares about surnames ?
      They are merely useful for genealogical tracing.

    • @selfautonomy7774
      @selfautonomy7774 Рік тому +2

      @@ccu881 the reason for the comment is to show the haters that there's been quote on quote black migration to the DR , which destroys the false narratives the haters have out there

    • @VirginiaLeonor-u2c
      @VirginiaLeonor-u2c 9 місяців тому

      My family is from San Pedro and I am of Cocolo descent!

  • @robluv9949
    @robluv9949 2 роки тому +12

    Haiti isn't there name there creole speaking Africans Haiti taino word . calling Africans a Haiti word Haiti is strange it's taino not African

  • @Lando-kx6so
    @Lando-kx6so Місяць тому +1

    You have maroons who were escaped enslaved Africans who went off & many mixed with native Tainos. It's probably how many inherited Taino last names

  • @ishmaelchiponda6383
    @ishmaelchiponda6383 2 роки тому +9

    These slaves came from angola and Congo which is central Africa

  • @junior6x644
    @junior6x644 Рік тому +14

    THE DOMINICAN'S people ascedent Congo and Senegal

    • @blad170
      @blad170 5 місяців тому +1

      @@junior6x644 that’s a fact

    • @polonrepy2599
      @polonrepy2599 4 місяці тому

      The dominicans descendents passed through my country, the name “Ladino” was also used in back then in my country

    • @KnightsTable
      @KnightsTable 2 місяці тому

      What country is that?

    • @blad170
      @blad170 2 місяці тому +2

      @@KnightsTable when I did my ancestry my lineage traces back to benin, tongo, Senegal, Spanish, Portuguese, native etc..
      are you

    • @richdollars8337
      @richdollars8337 2 місяці тому

      And spain they fucked !!!!

  • @1000gohead
    @1000gohead 2 роки тому +10

    Great video bro!!! Arda, Angola (Angela), Mingola , Mango, Fala all seem to have "Italian" origin.
    Bambo, Bambi, Bamba = Simpleton/Childish in Spanish
    The coverup of real authentic History is amazing. There's definitely a grand scheme to derail us from the truth

    • @HispaniolaHistoryChannel
      @HispaniolaHistoryChannel  2 роки тому +3

      Interesting, there's an agenda for sure, we pealing the layers of lies one by one, thanks for the feedback hermano

    • @GIYOUFAYA
      @GIYOUFAYA 2 роки тому +5

      💯🪘👏🏿🇦🇴approves and 🇨🇻approves we all descent of those slaves west coast of Africa big up for afrodiospora an unite🎶🎵✊🏿

    • @ishmaelchiponda6383
      @ishmaelchiponda6383 2 роки тому

      @@GIYOUFAYA slaves came from Congo and angola which is central Africa

    • @selfautonomy7774
      @selfautonomy7774 2 роки тому +2

      It’s unreal, ain’t it? I’m also amazed at how all the so called scholars are in cricket mode , they watching all the videos they so shocked and mad because of the false narratives of the history of that island !!

    • @akindele13
      @akindele13 Рік тому +2

      It's actually you that's lying. Just like Tango is Eyetalian right😂

  • @Arawaksunn
    @Arawaksunn 6 місяців тому +1

    Man I’m late to your channel but if you have an IG please drop it. I feel the need to link with you because I feel like I was alone I doing Antilles research. Thank you family from 🇯🇲

  • @imryanstilestho
    @imryanstilestho 2 місяці тому +1

    When you take color and names away and look at body structure and genetic build up, Africa has a heavy presence in the D.R. South American natives body structure is more short and square

  • @JaZaarMercury
    @JaZaarMercury Рік тому +2

    Shout out to Mocanos, especially Acostas and Guzmans

  • @TheDominicanRoute
    @TheDominicanRoute Рік тому +5

    Great Stuff From The Dominican Route 🦾🙌🏽

  • @realstateguzmandr248
    @realstateguzmandr248 Рік тому +3

    My last name is guzman, but, it s pretty obvious that we have african roots on my father side. You should have seen my late grandfather.. he was dark as midnight, I miss the old man..but, my question is what region of africa were dominican slaves taken from?

    • @HispaniolaHistoryChannel
      @HispaniolaHistoryChannel  Рік тому +1

      That's a good question and we don't think anybody knows for sure, but we do know many negroes, mulattos and Morenos were free and loyal to the Spanish Crown and Santo Domingo, the slave narrative is amplified too much when we talk about Spanish American history. not to mention many slaves of the French ran into the Spanish side of Hispaniola as well and became free

    • @HispaniolaHistoryChannel
      @HispaniolaHistoryChannel  Рік тому

      Even the first black Conquistadors had Spanish surnames, spoke Spanish fluently and had very little memory of Africa

    • @realstateguzmandr248
      @realstateguzmandr248 Рік тому +1

      @@HispaniolaHistoryChannel ok..I didn t know that

  • @archieone3710
    @archieone3710 Рік тому +1

    Awesomeness 🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾

  • @odalismikaelle
    @odalismikaelle 2 роки тому +3

    cuba has the most imports wow

  • @kingofkings2858
    @kingofkings2858 11 місяців тому +1

    Wait, I’ve never heard of those surnames in DR. The only one shown is Castillo, which according to the documents he was a free slave. However, Castillo seems to be a Spanish surname, not African which makes sense cause he was a free slave, probably a mulatto.

  • @realstateguzmandr248
    @realstateguzmandr248 Рік тому +5

    I only know is that my great grand father came from moca(cibao) and there are white families whose last name is Guzman My guess is that my great, great grand father adopted his master last name after he was set free...what I am telling is pure speculation, but, given my grand father strong african features..that s the most reasonable explanation.. don t get me wrong I am proud of my african roots.specially only the strongest survived that terrible journey, meaning my ancestors were top dogs!😎

    • @GIYOUFAYA
      @GIYOUFAYA Рік тому

      Nice topic fam , I been reading about cibao it had large influence of peninsula iberica people that incl. Portugal/Spain or Iberian Kingdom, my view an studies that I have done , alot of the files got destroyed by colonizers, it's large influence of Congo NGOLA in Santo Domingo, special with dancing similar to Angolan Congo they always dancing cause music was part of ceremony, we celebrate. The European Portuguesa an Spanish took the concept of saying we are praying wrong way an till today that it's in or DNA a black can turn white , but white can never turn black thanks alot from🇦🇴🇨🇻🇧🇷 to my distance relatives in Americas ASE✊🏿

    • @1474JOHN
      @1474JOHN Рік тому +3

      I have 3 half sister their mother last name is Guzman and they're from moca but they are pretty much white, our father is from moca too but my father whole family has similar features as the Indians, they don't look white but they don't look black either

    • @mickeyjimenez
      @mickeyjimenez Рік тому

      or maybe somebody of your ancestors get married with a white thats last name is guzman, remember diminicans history is not the same as african american history....

  • @jumboosisioma1748
    @jumboosisioma1748 Рік тому +1

    Bro, you numbers on Mexico are very low...check your sources..You did not provide much clarity.

    • @HispaniolaHistoryChannel
      @HispaniolaHistoryChannel  Рік тому

      It's not my numbers or estimates, I already provided the source in the video. When you say low numbers what do you mean exactly?

    • @jumboosisioma1748
      @jumboosisioma1748 Рік тому

      Between 1521 to 1812 , according to Atlantic slave trade, 250,000-300,000 slaves were imported to New Spain which is today's Mexico. At one point slaves population outnumbered Spaniards population.

    • @HispaniolaHistoryChannel
      @HispaniolaHistoryChannel  Рік тому

      @@jumboosisioma1748 possibly, but I don't go by popular slave trade websites and the mainstream narrative. If it can't be proven by a manuscript then I wouldn't trusted. Plus, during that time period you mentioned, Mexico was actually exporting thousands of slaves into the Caribbean, so I don't see them bringing in slaves all the way from west Africa when it was easier to bring in slaves from the Pacific ocean, not the Atlantic.

    • @jumboosisioma1748
      @jumboosisioma1748 Рік тому

      I guess everyone have their sources and references. Accredited or not.

  • @AfricanDominican
    @AfricanDominican Рік тому +7

    Interesting video... History can be distorted and biased based on who is writing it and who they favor more. Your narrative and the sources presented sounded like you were trying to minimize the African influence in DR. Nonetheless, thanks for the video. We can agree to disagree.

    • @crzyboy190
      @crzyboy190 Рік тому +3

      There's really nothing to minimize a lot of elements in Dominican culture are heavily intertwined with the Indigenous but especially Spaniard culture. DR also never had as much slaves as Haiti but it did have a migration of Anglo-Blacks in the 18th & 19th century.

    • @kevingomez-johnson140
      @kevingomez-johnson140 5 місяців тому +2

      ​@@crzyboy190 Mofongo is supposed to be fufu my guy, I'm of Dominican decent and know that plantains come from Africa. I hate the amount of disingenuous BS that comes from Dominicans when it comes to being black, I don't know why you'd want to have recessive genes in the first place or fight to have recessive genes. We truly are lost as a people.

    • @pape5602
      @pape5602 5 місяців тому +1

      @@kevingomez-johnson140 Fiya comment!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @michaelruiz3104
    @michaelruiz3104 2 роки тому +9

    From my research, supposedly the number of African slaves began to skyrocket during the 1720s to the 1770s becuase Spanish and Dominican troops would journey out in the Caribbean sea and attack enemy ships, which included large numbers of African slaves. And if I'm not mistaken wasn't it around that time where the African slaves briefly consisted the majority of the Dominican population?

    • @HispaniolaHistoryChannel
      @HispaniolaHistoryChannel  2 роки тому +7

      That's right, during that time period those enemy ships consisted of English and French pirates. But the point to the video is to point out those so called "African slaves" were most likely caribs that were already in the Caribbean and south America

    • @kingofkings2858
      @kingofkings2858 11 місяців тому +6

      Very little slaves were imported to DR.. you can find that information literally anywhere. That’s why there was not much slavery in DR and the Tainos were freely living in the island. There are Documents and even letters of communication between Tainos and Spanish ppl

    • @itz_bizzy6847
      @itz_bizzy6847 9 місяців тому +1

      @@kingofkings2858there’s many things stating that slaves occupied the whole island at some point but do to issues with money that Spain had at that current point in time a majority of the slaves were given to the French/ Haiti side of the island to be able to care more for their own people

    • @lulu0724
      @lulu0724 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@itz_bizzy6847Damn, where do you people come up with this story. Why invent things, and what do you actually get out of this. There was no time in history that the entire island was occupied by just slaves. Not even when the haitians invaded DR for 22 years because the Dominicas were the mixture of the tainos, iberian and africans. France was an enemy to Spain and reason why the massacre river exist between Haiti and DR. Never in history did Spain give slaves to the French. It was the Devastation of Osorio in 1606 that left todays haiti unhabited and reason why france invaded. Heck Spain was forced to give the western side of the island in the Treaty of Ryswick becase the dominicans including the elites and maroons could not remove the french pirates as there were to many living their with their families. There's historical evidence from french historians and in the trans-atlantic slave trade database that dominicans with support of Spain seize vessels with slaves going to Saint Domingue and taking them to Santo Domingo/DR and offering them freedom and education just to spite the french.

    • @blad170
      @blad170 5 місяців тому

      @@kingofkings2858 let’s not forget the over one million Taino that were killed by the Spanish upon arrival, the Taino people were blended with the Spanish and with the slaves that were there which I think was less than the Spanish population due to the less need for slaves because DR was more of a pit stop for other Spanish conquistadores so all three races fused into one. But you mostly have dark skinned indios.

  • @carmeloyomileaddo8111
    @carmeloyomileaddo8111 Рік тому +4

    I got a lot of Colombian friends with the surname Luango and Lucumi

    • @HispaniolaHistoryChannel
      @HispaniolaHistoryChannel  Рік тому +2

      That's interesting, it appears that these surnames originate from the Americas and not the surnames of African slaves as previously believed by historians.

    • @yusefnegao
      @yusefnegao 4 місяці тому

      @@HispaniolaHistoryChannelbut there was a kingdom of loango in Angola and Portugal brought many slaves from Angola into Spanish America

    • @yusefnegao
      @yusefnegao 2 місяці тому

      Most spell it as loango just like in Angola

    • @yusefnegao
      @yusefnegao 2 місяці тому

      @@HispaniolaHistoryChannelhistorians were right it literally took me two minutes to confirm and if you were more familiar with the country that exported the most slaves to Latin America you would already be familiar with the kingdom of loango

  • @nathan9368
    @nathan9368 Рік тому +1

    My surname is Pichardo makes sense

  • @KnightsTable
    @KnightsTable 2 місяці тому +1

    I know a person who thought they was of "African American" decent..when they did their GENEALOGY come to.find out they were Native American..their lineage started in NY and was taken sold as a slave sent to North Carolinas from the Carolina they lineage ended up in the Caribbean from the Caribbean brought to Angola Africa,then Brazil then finally ended up back in NORTH AMerica around Mississippi somewhere. First thing I thought of when I saw this video..slot of misclassification in our history and alot of lies told to us..Research has to be done.

    • @HispaniolaHistoryChannel
      @HispaniolaHistoryChannel  2 місяці тому +1

      @@KnightsTable wow, that's an amazing genealogy story... crazy thing is there's a whole history of native Americans being sent into Africa but gets no attention in mainstream academia

    • @yusefnegao
      @yusefnegao 2 місяці тому

      @@HispaniolaHistoryChannelbecause it was smaller than the ones they brought to Europe which means it was insignificant

  • @latherashalewis9314
    @latherashalewis9314 2 роки тому +1

    Free Maria

  • @hulksmashvm
    @hulksmashvm Рік тому +6

    Every Dominican I ever known didn't like the fact that there's African blood lines running through their veins. My father is the same way. SMH

    • @day105
      @day105 Рік тому

      sad...i was married to a dominican & the racist hate towards anything or one black was crazy, they workship white skin, yet many were darker than me with nappy hair....crazy shit, i never seen aqnything like it, totally brain wash

    • @pingueeh
      @pingueeh Рік тому

      Hi, you have to understand that the white world made black people enslaved, and to maintain the economic system of slavery, they degrated the history and heritage of black people, so when haitian revolution succeded, white colonists demonized black people( see what Thomas Jefferson said about haitian independence) in other to prevent other blacks to emulate what happened in Haiti, having siad that, Dominicans do not and hate being compared with haitians, needless to say that the white world( France and USA) blocked the path and growth of haiti until this day...Haiti is the poorest country in America and i'm pretty sure you know who is responsible. So , i do understand dominicans trying to distance themselves from haiti.

    • @lulu0724
      @lulu0724 7 місяців тому +3

      Maybe it's your family. Most dominicans don't like to be called "blacks" because they feel they'll be denying their other roots/history such as the indigenous of the island by only claiming one race. They don't identify by their race but ethnicity unlike americans. They would rather be known as "dominicans" because its an identity of three different races mixed in one nation. Indigenous, spaninard and african. The biggest statue in DR most well known museum, Museo del hombre dominicano, is of Lemba one of the first and better known maroon. The other two are of Enriquillo( taino) and Bartolome de las Casas(spaniard) that serves as a symbol of how mixed we are.

  • @damiandamian-gl9jc
    @damiandamian-gl9jc 4 місяці тому

    wtf

  • @amaryahbahtisrael6711
    @amaryahbahtisrael6711 2 роки тому +8

    They are the tribe of simeon the true hebrews of the bible the northern kingdom . And fit the curses of deuteronomy 28:15-68 the Gods chosen people the biblical israelites. Of royal descend

    • @thelyrictist1
      @thelyrictist1 2 роки тому +1

      I think some of them know to because when I was there this week I saw them using Yah’s original names along with Israel listed in some places

    • @candyluna2929
      @candyluna2929 2 роки тому +1

      YESS!!! I WANT THIS CHANNEL TO DISCOVER THIS. AS A DOMINICAN, I AM BURNING TO KNOW THAT THE TRIE GOSPEL HAS BEEN GIVEN TO MY PEOPLE

    • @candyluna2929
      @candyluna2929 2 роки тому

      The Africans aren't of the tribe of simeonm
      The tainos were. I think we are levites though the africans since the Haitians are of that tribe

    • @ty1279
      @ty1279 Рік тому +2

      @@candyluna2929 no only Benjamin nd Judah levites

    • @whataguyproductions1222
      @whataguyproductions1222 9 місяців тому +1

      @@thelyrictist1where

  • @alexsanchez4553
    @alexsanchez4553 Рік тому +1

    Dominican republic got more than 6,000 slaves they got 700,000 slaves.

    • @kingofkings2858
      @kingofkings2858 11 місяців тому +1

      Not true AT ALL. You can literally find those documents anywhere. That was definitely Haiti… Spain did not want too many black in the island in contrast to France with Haiti using Africans as slaves.

    • @lulu0724
      @lulu0724 7 місяців тому +2

      ​@@kingofkings2858 You're right. The island governor Nicolas de Ovando and Diego Colombus even asked the crown for a couple of years to stop importation slaves for a while to the island as they were revolting and causing them too much trouble. Those slaves who were escaping became the first "maroons", them and the tainos are the reason why we even have that word in our vocabulary today from cimarron.

    • @yusefnegao
      @yusefnegao 4 місяці тому

      @@kingofkings2858not about want it’s about labor needs and sugar needs more labor than cattle

    • @faraona6007
      @faraona6007 3 місяці тому

      FALSO, ERAN LOS FRANCESES LOS QUE TENIAN MAYOR CANTIDAD

    • @yusefnegao
      @yusefnegao 2 місяці тому

      They definitely did not