EPISODE 04 - Dominican History
Episode 04 - Anthony Stevens-Acevedo on Dominican History
Rocio and Mercedes deep dive into Dominican History with Dr. Anthony Stevens-Acevedo. We talk about how the island was originally colonized, how the island divided into two countries, Haitian and Dominican Republic’s tense relationship, the great migration to the US, Trujillo, effects of Jim Crow in DR, and even Juan Rodriguez!
About Anthony
Researcher of XVI Dominican archival manuscripts. Worked from 2004 to 2018 at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI), where he was Assistant Director from 2007 to 2018. Retired since July 2019. Before, Social Studies Teacher in the City’s public schools for ten years, and staff during four years at the first Councilmanic District 10 Office of the City (Washington Heights-Inwood).
At CUNY DSI led research projects on Dominican colonial history, like the First Blacks in the Americas / Los Primeros Negros en las Américas and the Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning Tool digital platforms, and the monographs Juan Rodríguez and the Beginnings of New York City and The Santo Domingo Slave Revolt of 1521 and the Slave Laws of 1522: Black Slavery and Black Resistance in the Early Colonial Americas.” Foreign Corresponding Member of the Dominican Academy of History. Author of published and unpublished articles on Dominican colonial history and of paleographiic transcriptions and monographs in process on the same theme. Born in New York City in 1956, grew up in San Pedro Pedro de Macorís, pursued a BA in History in Seville (Spain) and since 1983 has resided in New York City, where he obtained and M.A. in History in 2005 at CCNY. Currently resides in New Jersey.
More info:
Research and Education-related work at: https://cuny.academia.edu/AnthonyStevensAcevedo
Commemorating the first black antislavery rebellion (Santo Domingo 1521) at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1818157554955582
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anthonystevensacevedo/
This episode was produced by: Quinton Cameron, Mercedes Ilarraza, and Rocio Mendez
Edited by: Quinton Cameron
Logo by: Dylan Rogers