Historical Dictionary of the Dominican Republic - Eric Paul Roorda - Google Books

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The colony called Santo Domingo, which became the Dominican Republic, was the violent crucible in which the ingredients of the New World, drawn from America, Europe and Africa, were fused together for the first time: humans, religions, technologies,…