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Benkos Biohó

Kongo royal and Colombian slave rebel

Benkos Biohó (late 16th century — ), also known as Domingo Biohó was a Mandinka and South American leader who escaped from the slave port of Cartagena with ten others and founded San Basilio de Palenque, then known as the "village of the maroons", located in what is now Northern Colombia.

In it became the first free village in the Americas by decree from the King of Spain, when he gave up sending his troops on futile missions to attack their fortified mountain hideaway.[1][2]

Biography

Biohó was born into a royal family in Guinea Bissau.

Biography of william shakespeare In it became the first free village in the Americas by decree from the King of Spain, when he gave up sending his troops on futile missions to attack their fortified mountain hideaway. He made his first escape when the boat that was transporting him down the Magdalena River sank. He was recaptured but escaped again in into the marshy lands southeast of Cartagena. He also formed an intelligence network and used the information collected to help organize more escapes and to guide the runaway slaves into the liberated territory, known as settlement. He used the title "king of Arcabuco ".

He was of Mandinka origin[3] He was seized by the Portuguese slave trader, Pedro Gomes Reinel, sold to businessman Juan Palacios, and later, after transportation to what is now Colombia in South America, sold again to the Spaniard Alonso del Campo in , in Cartagena de Indias. He made his first escape when the boat that was transporting him down the Magdalena River sank.

He was recaptured but escaped again in into the marshy lands southeast of Cartagena. He organized an army that came to dominate all of the Montes de María region. He also formed an intelligence network and used the information collected to help organize more escapes and to guide the runaway slaves into the liberated territory, known as settlement. He used the title "king of Arcabuco".

Benkos bioho biography of william He was born in the middle or late s. He became the leader of the maroon black rebellion in the Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada now Colombia at the beginning of the s. XVII, becoming a symbol of freedom among blacks and other runaway slaves. Fleeing from his slavers, he founded the free settlement San Basilio de Palenque. In this place indigenous and black maroons lived and coexisted as a free people.

On 18 July , the Governor of Cartagena, Gerónimo de Suazo y Casasola, unable to defeat the Maroons, offered a peace treaty to Biohó, recognising the autonomy of the Matuna Bioho Palenque and accepting his entrance into the city armed and dressed in Spanish fashion, while the palenque promised to stop receiving more runaway slaves, cease their aid in escape attempts, and stop addressing Biohó as "king".

Peace was finalized in under the governorship of Diego Fernández de Velasco (governor)&#;[es]. The treaty was violated by the Spaniards in when they captured Biohó as he was walking carelessly into the city. He was hanged and quartered on 16 March Governor García Girón, who ordered the execution, argued bitterly that "it was dangerous the extent to which Biohó was respected in the population" and that "his lies and enchantment would drive the nations of Guinea away from the city."[4]

The betrayal contributed to the history of distrust of Colombia's government.[1]

By the end of the seventeenth century, Montes de María had over maroons, under the command of Domingo Padilla, who claimed for himself the title of captain while his wife Jane adopted that of viceroy, and successfully challenged further attempts at sovereignty from the colonial authorities.

San Basilio de Palenque was declared Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in [5] At about 80 kilometres (50&#;mi) east of Cartagena, hills of strategic value, used as lookout posts, still bear the names of the runaway neighborhood: Sincerin, Mahates, Gambote.

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He established the maroon community of San Basilio de Palenque some time in the 16th century. He was betrayed and hanged by the governor of Cartagena in In it became "the first free village in the Americas" by decree from the King of Spain, when he gave up sending his troops on futile missions to attack their fortified mountain hideaway. He is the great-great-great-great-grandfather of the late Afro-Colombian singer, composer and drummer, Paulino Salgado Valdez. Also known as Domingo Bioho, he made his first escape when the boat that was transporting him down the Magdalena River sank.

References

  1. ^ abTomaselli, Wesley (November 20, ). "The Colonial Betrayal that Haunts Colombian Peace". Ozy. Retrieved November 20,
  2. ^"How this runaway slave founded San Basilio de Palenque, first free town in the Americas".

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    6. Face2Face Africa. Retrieved

  6. ^"Benkos Bioho's Life Mattered! And Here's the Proof!". The African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center. Retrieved
  7. ^Aquiles Escalante, Palenques in Colombia, in "Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas", ed.

    by Richard Price (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, ), pp.

  8. ^Cultural Space of Palenque de San Basilio (in Palenquero), Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Colombia, 15 May , retrieved : CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

Further reading

External links

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    Benkos bioho biography of william shakespeare From Africa he was captured by Portuguese traffickers and sent to the New World. Its name evokes a village east of the Senegal River, a vassalage of the Maasai people. Captured with his wife, Wiwa, and their children Sando and Orika, he ended up arriving in Cartagena de Indias where, along with his family, he was sold to Juan de Palacio. Later, in , they would pass into the hands of Alonso de Campos, a captain who operated in the service of the governor. At that time there was a prohibition in the new kingdom that prevented the slavery of indigenous people, which is why Portuguese and Mediterranean traders ended up going to search for slave hands.

    (). Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American diaspora. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.

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  • Curto, José C.; Soulodre-LaFrance, Renée, eds. (). Africa and the Americas: interconnections during the slave trade. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.

    Benkos bioho biography of william hamilton: In approximately (two decades BEFORE Virginia unloaded its first slave ship), Benkos Biohó, escaping slavery for at least the second time, led a group of about 30 escapees in founding one of the oldest and longest lasting free Afrikan Maroon cities in the Western Hemisphere!.

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