Mexico
The African Roots of Cuban Music
United Nations, 2017
Clave: The African Roots of Salsa (article)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002

Race in the Dominican Republic
HuffPost 2017

Primary Source: City College Dominican Library First Blacks in the Americas (Pictures)
Images of important locations in the Dominican Republic for the Transatlantic Slave Trade

New Analysis Suggests These Three Men Were Among the First Africans Enslaved in the Americas
Smithsonian Magazine, 2020

Smithsonian Magazine 2011

Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity (book excerpt)
Temple University Press, 1997

Merengue, Dominican Music and Dominican Identity
Afropop Worldwide

Racial Identity in the Dominican Republic (article)
Fordham News, 2019

Cimarrón Spirit and an article about the movie is here.
A documentary about enslaved people who escaped and formed their own free communities

Primary Source: Concern about Maroons, 1662 (letter)
letter from a Spanish official about runaway enslaved people

African American Registry

Spanish Colonization Overview (Video)
Khan Academy