The first Spanish settlement on Hispaniola ended in violence with the Taino
Evidence
Christopher Columbus landed on the island during his first voyage, in 1492. The indigenous Taino seem to have called it Ayiti, but Columbus gave it a new name: La Española. On the northwest coast of the island, Columbus left behind a small group of sailors in the care of a local Taino chief. He returned the following year to find the settlement abandoned and destroyed, with most of those he had left behind buried nearby. The chief he had entrusted with his men claimed that a group of Caribs from another island had attacked and he had been powerless to defend the Spaniards. It is more likely that (not for the last time) the initial peace between Europeans and the indigenous peoples had devolved into violence. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 58
Categorization
- XREF: Pattern of first-contact peace devolving into violence appears repeatedly in settler-colonial histories; connects to later French-Taino relations and the island’s name origin (Ayiti = Haiti). — connects to: The first European settlement in the Americas quickly collapsed into violence with indigenous peoples; Spanish colonization reduced Hispaniola’s native population from 300,000 to under 500 in two decades — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 624
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The first European settlement in the Americas quickly collapsed into violence with indigenous peoples; Spanish colonization reduced Hispaniola’s native population from 300,000 to under 500 in two decades — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 624