Benkos bioho biography books

Kongo royal and Colombian slave rebel

Benkos Biohó (late 16th century — 1621), also known as Domingo Biohó was a Mandinka and South American leader who escaped from the slave port of Cartagena with ten others and founded San Basilio de Palenque, then known as the "village of the maroons", located in what is now Northern Colombia.

In 1713 it became the first free village in the Americas by decree from the King of Spain, when he gave up sending his troops on futile missions to attack their fortified mountain hideaway.^[1][2]

Biography

Biohó was born into a royal family in Guinea Bissau. He was of Mandinka origin^[3] He was seized by the Portuguese slave trader, Pedro Gomes Reinel, sold to businessman Juan Palacios, and later, after transportation to what is now Colombia in South America, sold again to the Spaniard Alonso del Campo in 1596, in Cartagena de Indias.

He made his first escape when the boat that was transporting him dow Benkos Biohó: African Maroon Leadership in New Grenada - Brill NEW