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On 18 July 1566, Bartolomé de las Casas died in Madrid after fifty years spent prosecuting Spain's own conquest. He had begun as an encomendero in Hispaniola, and he never stopped being inconvenient - then to the colonists, now to almost everyone who tries to claim him.
On 9 February 1822, Jean-Pierre Boyer rode into Santo Domingo with 12,000 soldiers and unified the entire island of Hispaniola under a single Black republic. The occupation lasted 22 years, abolished slavery, closed the oldest university in the Americas, and planted the resentments that would define Dominican identity ever after.