Hatuey was a Taíno cacique who fled from the environs of Môle, on the northwestern coast of Hispaniola, to seek asylum in Cuba after Spanish forces devastated the indigenous population of the island.
He is preserved in madiou-indigenous-genocide-extraction as the third major figure in Madiou's account of Taíno resistance and extermination — alongside anacaona and cacique-henri — and his martyrdom became one of the most enduring acts of defiance in Madiou's moral framing of the pre-revolutiona...
TimelineAcross the historical record.
- 1804-01-01
Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
declaration-independence-1804 — 1804 sovereignty event that reclaimed the Taíno name Haiti