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Puerto Rico

Colonization and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI)

History of Puerto Rico (article)

Encyclopedia Brittanica

People of Puerto Rico: a Map

Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College

Primary Source: Baptismal Records in Puerto Rico

Shows the records of enslaved people who were baptized in Puerto Rico

Activists push for Puerto Ricans to embrace black identity

CBS 2020 The article that this segment is based on in the New York Times is here 

Afro Puerto Ricans (article)

Minority Rights Group

Primary Sources: Puerto Rican Slave Documents

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

Sixty-seven miscellaneous slave documents listing individual slaves, their physical characteristics, and ownership. Most of the slaves belonged to smaller households in the northeast part of the island, and many were young children.

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