Uncovering the Indigenous Indies Colonial Cuba as Case Study
Thursday, 03/06/2025-, 06:00 pm-08:30 pm
Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion
1300 Memorial Dr,
Coral Gables, Florida, 33146
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Cost: free

Join us for a presentation by Dr. John Paul Paniagua during which he will offer an alternative narrative of the early conquest and colonization that de-emphasizes Native dissolution and extinction. Instead, it explores the formation of an early Caribbean labor regime built on both the Spanish encomienda and Indigenous enslavement. This nexus explains not just why so many Indians suffered and died, but how the Indigenous survived the way they did. Rather than a quick extermination, cascading social reproduction crises produced thousands of deracinated survivors—that is, survivors uprooted from their communities and cultures.