Resources on the TransAtlantic Slave Trade in Humacao, Puerto Rico.

Trans-Atlantic Voyages of Captive Africans to Humacao | Open Tour

Disclaimer:

The content of these documents provides details of the Middle Passage, specific vessels transporting captive Africans, the arrival of these people, and the ubiquity of slavery. The following resources include racist language as well as references to violence, dehumanization, and the enslavement of Africans. The language contained in the following documents may be upsetting to some readers.

Books and Literature

Slave Traffic in the Age of Abolition: Puerto Rico, West Africa, and the Non-Hispanic Caribbean, 1815-1859
American Slavers and the Federal Law, 1837-1862
 Slavery and Child Trafficking in Puerto Rico at the Closing of the African Slave Trade: The Young Captives of the Slaver Majesty, 1859-1865.  
Africans Emancipated from the Majesty, 1859. 
The Emancipated Africans of the Majesty: Slave Smuggling against the Prohibition of Trafficking in Puerto Rico, 1859.  

 

Newspaper Articles and Colonial Documents

March 4, 1859.  
March 21, 1859. 
March 24, 1859
March 27, 1859
March 31, 1859
May 11, 1859