Dominican Republic

Santo Domingo: The city that kept slavery silent; Lebawit Lily Girma; BBC

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Few people realise that the Dominican Republic was home to the first black people in the Americas. So why has Europe’s oldest permanent settlement turned its back on its African past?

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