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Reckoning with 1776 - from an article by Dr. Rael-Galvez in El Palacio

"The world Domínguez perceived was complex, multilingual, and shaped by the convergence of cultures. What he recorded offers only a partial glimpse of the societies that defined New Mexico in 1776. Yet his report also stands in quiet contrast to another document written in that same year: the Declaration of Independence. While the Declaration proclaimed universal principles of liberty yet remained silent about slavery, Domínguez’s account reveals a frontier society structured largely by Indigenous slavery. Read together, the two documents illuminate both the aspirations and the silence of slavery embedded in the historical moment of 1776. "

Read more at https://elpalacio.org/2026/06/reckoning-with-1776/ or by following the link in our bio.

𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 – 𝐉𝐮𝐛𝐢 𝐎𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐨

When Jubi Oladipo first reached out to Native Bound Unbound, she did so not only to express her appreciation for the project, but to ask how she might contribute to its work. A student at Harvard College studying History and African American Studies, Jubi is deeply interested in the intersections of African American and Native American histories, particularly how these stories have too often been separated in both scholarship and public understanding.

Her research has already begun to illuminate these connections. In her work on the 1637 voyage of the Desire, Jubi traced one of the earliest documented convergences of Indigenous and African slavery in New England, following the ship’s transport of Pequot captives to the Caribbean and its return with enslaved Africans.

Now, as an intern with Native Bound Unbound, Jubi is building on this work through archival research in Massachusetts, identifying and organizing materials that reveal the presence of Indigenous slavery in the region’s historical record. Her work contributes to a growing effort to better understand these intertwined histories while also helping to shape an emerging collaboration with Harvard focused on expanding the study of Indigenous slavery within its institutional and regional context.

Antoine was just 10 years old when he passed away, a "panis child belonging to Joseph Carignan" in Batiscan, Quebec. Although this is the only record we have at moment about Antoine, Native Bound Unbound is committed to recovering as much information as possible about each individual and connecting these moments to build an arc of their life.

You can visit Antoine's page at https://nativeboundunbound.org/people/7450d504-dc90-4957-af87-7ea5628bbc8a/ to learn more.