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**salomal-qask** · 09-13-2010, 07:51 PM

As dominican mulatto types are a bigger part of the national population compared with brazil, i'd say overall DR comes closest to mirroring capeverdian looks. Also regarding african imputs, i'd say the dominican ones more closely resemble capeverdians ones. Especially in early colonization phase of DR a majority of slaves brought there actually passed through or was shipped from CV! This is not the case for brazil where most african input is from either western central africa (angola/congo) or gulf of guinea (nigeria/benin). Only northern brazil has significant african input from upperguinea/senegambia (which is the almost exclusive african input for capeverdeans).

That's right. During the initial stages of the Spanish colonization of Hispaniola, the "Asiento", that is, the license that the Spanish Crown granted to some individuals to bring african slaves to the colonies, was in power of the portuguese, which would use Cape Verde as their main shipping point to the Caribbean and Northern Brazil.

The situation would change drastically during the XVIIIth century, when the British practically took over the slave trafficking business to the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in America as a result of the Allied victory on the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). Being that the exploitation of the southern Brazilian states (Minas Gerais, Goiás, Sao Paulo, etc.) would begin in earnest during this stage, it's not unreasonable to ascribe this difference between Dominican/Cape Verdean/Northern Brazilian and Southern Brazilians to this change in the supplier of slaves.

09-13-2010, 07:51 PM	#19
salomal-qask Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 516 Senior Member	As dominican mulatto types are a bigger part of the national population compared with brazil, i'd say overall DR comes closest to mirroring capeverdian looks. Also regarding african imputs, i'd say the dominican ones more closely resemble capeverdians ones. Especially in early colonization phase of DR a majority of slaves brought there actually passed through or was shipped from CV! This is not the case for brazil where most african input is from either western central africa (angola/congo) or gulf of guinea (nigeria/benin). Only northern brazil has significant african input from upperguinea/senegambia (which is the almost exclusive african input for capeverdeans). That's right. During the initial stages of the Spanish colonization of Hispaniola, the "Asiento", that is, the license that the Spanish Crown granted to some individuals to bring african slaves to the colonies, was in power of the portuguese, which would use Cape Verde as their main shipping point to the Caribbean and Northern Brazil. The situation would change drastically during the XVIIIth century, when the British practically took over the slave trafficking business to the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in America as a result of the Allied victory on the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). Being that the exploitation of the southern Brazilian states (Minas Gerais, Goiás, Sao Paulo, etc.) would begin in earnest during this stage, it's not unreasonable to ascribe this difference between Dominican/Cape Verdean/Northern Brazilian and Southern Brazilians to this change in the supplier of slaves.
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