Spanish governors reneged on amnesty treaties and executed surrendered maroon leaders

Evidence

Numerous expeditions against San Basilio failed and in 1612 and 1613, a treaty that included amnesty was offered by the governor, Diego Fernandez de Valesco. Many of the palenqueros accepted the terms, which included the abandonment of the settlement. But in 1619, when another major slave revolt occurred in Cartegena, Rout maintains the occasion was seized by a subsequent governor to mete out what he took to be a too-long deferred revenge on the ex-rebels. Escalante, however, insists: “Governor Garcia Giron … uncovered a new plot by Benkos and captured him, and finally had him hanged.” Still, descendants of the San Basilio palenque were to be encountered in the hinterlands as late as 1790. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 685