Resources on the Trans-Atlantic Human Trade in Humacao, Puerto Rico

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

Humacao, Puerto Rico – Annotated Bibliography

Photo Archive – Puerto Rico

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

 

Newspaper Articles and Colonial Documents

March 4, 1859 – The Morning Post.  
March 21, 1859 – The Morning Chronicle. 
March 24, 1859 – The Morning Chronicle
March 27, 1859 – New York Daily Herald
March 31, 1859 – The Charleston Daily Courier
May 11, 1859 – The Summit County Beacon

Further Reading

Africans Emancipated from the Majesty, 1859

Slavery and Child Trafficking in Puerto Rico at the Closing of the African Slave Trade: The Young Captives of the Slaver Majesty, 1859-1865.

The Early Iberian Slave Trade to the Spanish Caribbean, 1500-1580

The Emancipated Africans of the Majesty: Slave Smuggling against the Prohibition of Trafficking in Puerto Rico, 1859