Episode 9 - That Which was Ours Always

In this episode, the first conflicts erupt between the Taíno population and the Spanish colonizers in Puerto Rico following the excesses of the encomiendo system, including the deaths of Diego Salcedo and Cristobal de Sotomayor.

If you want more information on the topic, please see the main references for the episode below:

• Historia General y Natural de las Indias por Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (Spanish): https://ems.kcl.ac.uk/content/etext/e026.html
• Nuevas fuentes para la historia de Puerto Rico; documentos ineditios o poco conocidos cuyos originales se encuentran en el Archivo General de Indias en la ciudad de Sevilla, España (Spanish): https://archive.org/details/nuevasfuentespar0000aure/page/118/mode/2up, 

• Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias de Juan de Castellanos (Spanish): https://www.clas.rutgers.edu/files/180/Digitized-Books-and-Publications/645/Elegias-de-varones-ilustres-de-indias.pdf,

• La Conquista Española y la Gran Rebelión de los Taínos por Francisco Moscoso (Spanish): https://www.yumpu.com/es/document/view/14611729/la-conquista-espanola-y-la-gran-rebelion-de-los-tainos.

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The image for this episode depicting the death of Diego Salcedo is a colorized version of an Illustration from the book Collectiones peregrinatiorum in Indiam orientalem et Indiam occidentalem by Theodor de Bry, published in 1590.