Uprise In Santo Domingo
From the European and taste of sugar
Depended the Caribbean riches
Produced by extensive manual work
Of Africans enslaved
In colonial plantation economy regime
Amid the hard work
How fast the energy is exhausted,
And hanging over the slaves
The scarce supply in what sordid houses
Nor medical care they had! ...
Marrons
were gangs of runaway slaves
Hidden in the forest
Out of imperial control ...
Charismatic, was François Mackandal
First effective marron leader
Its people inspired with African traditions
United and established in such a way
Secret organizations
Among the slaves of plantations
And six years of rebellion he caused
But oh, although he had been captured
And burned in fire
After his death, armed marrons persisted ...
It was a brutal conflict period
In the colony of Santo Domingo
Leading to total elimination
Of Slavery and the inevitable coming of Independence
Of Haiti as the first republic
Governed by afro-descent people
Copyright © Alberto Secama | Year Posted 2015
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