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Colonial authorities succeeded in destroying San Lorenzo de los Negros in 1609, but they were unable to capture Yanga’s followers and eventually settled for a peace treaty with the former slaves. Now in his old age, Yanga negotiated the right to build his own free colony as long as it paid taxes to the Spanish crown. This municipality—the first official settlement of freed Africans in the Americas—was finally established in 1630 and still exists today under the name “Yanga.”MONDAY URBAN DICTIONARY NEW
Utopian communities in 19th-century
America were considered by many to herald a new age in human civilization.
Often led by charismatic leaders with high religious or secular moral ideals, these
settlements experimented wildly with different models of government, marriage,
labor and wealth. Hundreds of such societies littered the U.S. landscape during
the 1800s, most disappearing without a trace. Here are five that made a lasting
impression on life in the United States, for better or for worse.
