Despite the very high number of free and highly autonomous peoples living in the colony of Santo Domingo (3 out of 4 people of "color" where free) by 1681 1 , there where still folks who where enslaved and how they attained freedom would have been through various forms. Here are some examples. In the San Francisco de Macoris 1812 Census we see the legal status of folks but only the enslaved are marked as "slaves". In this list the majority of the peoples listed are mulatto/pardo/black(moren@) but this is not marked as only enslaved is marked. María Dolores Alvarado de 36. Agregados: Juan Rodríguez de 12, Tomás Rodríguez de 7, Felipa Paulino de 20 y Basilio Alvarado de 2. Esclavos: Salvador Ventura de 36, Juan Alvarado de 30, Cecilia Gomes de 26, Felipa Sánchez de 10, Bernardo Sánchez de 6 y María Alvarado de 8. Here we have 6 enslaved persons listed, each with their ages listed. Turns out Salvador Ventura and Cecilia Gomes where married even though
Analyzing and understanding the roots of Dominican/Quisqueyan/Haitian peoples via genealogy and genetics.