Ingenio de Diego Caballero
INTRODUCTION
The Dominican Republic is a necessary reference when identifying and preserving places of memory associated with the slave trade and slavery. These lands were named the island of Santo Domingo or La Española by the conquerors, but they were originally named Haiti or Quisqueya by the aboriginal inhabitants. The Island received the first contingents of Africans enslaved in the New World (1501) the origin of African slavery in the Americas, a phenomenon whose historical consequences are still present in Latin-American and Caribbean societies.
