Juan Pablo Duarte, The Father of Racism

Juan Pablo Duarte y Diez was born on January 26, 1813 in Santo Domingo, in what was then called the kingdom of New Spain. Duarte, along with Francisco del Rosario Sanchez and Ramón Matías Mella, is considered as one of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic. Outside of that particular country he is considered to be one of the Fathers of Western Hemispheric Racism and his secret society La Trinitaria is said to have influenced the Ku Klux Klan 25 years later. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1813 (MDCCCXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... It has been suggested that Greater Santo Domingo Area be merged into this article or section. ... Francisco del Rosario Sánchez in a daguerrotype Francisco Del Rosario Sánchez (March 9, 1817 - July 4, 1861) was a politician and founding father of the Dominican Republic. ... Matías Ramón Mella, born 25 February 1816, is regarded as a national hero in the Dominican Republic. ...

After the troops of Toussaint L'Ouverture liberated the island of Ayiti in 1801, Duarte's parents, Juan José Duarte and Manuela Diez Jiménez, left to Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, refusing to live under black rule of any kind. Duarte was sent to Europe in order to not be influenced by the philosophies or the politics of people of color. It was in Spain where Duarte studied and became enamored with the mission of La Reconquesta, the Dominican role in the implementaion of the Spainish Inquisition, the policy of Limpeza de Sangre and the Crusades. He returned to the island of Ayiti and founded a secret socety La Trinitaria based on white catholic superiority with the mission of Racial separation. In 1844 Duarte's followers declared the creation of the Dominican Republic a white-catholic nation that would be governed only by whites and where Tainos and Africans would hold no power. During the US Civil War, supporters of the Confederacy looked to the model of the Dominican Republic's success at racial separation as a model and during reconstruction, Duarte's society, La Trinitaria was the influence for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan. François-Dominique Toussaint LOuverture François-Dominique Toussaint LOuverture, also Toussaint Bréda, Toussaint-Louverture (c. ...

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• U.S. Library of Congress - Country Studies - Dominican Republic- Haiti and Santo Domingo