Bayano Wars

Bayano Wars
Part of North American slave revolts
Date1548-1558 and 1579-1582
Location
Result Spanish victory
Belligerents
Spanish Empire Spanish Empire Bayanos of Panama
Commanders and leaders
Unknown Bayano 
Strength
Unknown 1552:
1,200[1]
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown

The Bayano Wars were armed conflicts in the Isthmus of Panama that occurred between the Bayano of Panama and the Spanish crown. The First War of the Bayano took place from 1548 to 1558, while the Second War took place from 1579 and 1582.[2] Slavery, practiced since the early sixteenth century in Panama, brought many enslaved people from Africa to Spanish America. This brought successive slave uprisings against the rulers of the time, which was the origin for the Bayano Wars.

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  2. ^ Valencia, Pedro de; Gayo, Gaspar Morocho; Fernández, Francisco Javier Fuente; Jeśus Paniagua Pérez (1993). Obras completas (in Spanish). Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de León. p. 185. ISBN 978-84-7719-393-7.