Primary and secondary references for the Trans-Atlantic Human Trade in
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Annotated Bibliography
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 may 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.
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Books and Literature
Maps
Mapa topográfico de la isla de Puerto Rico
The Western Ilands
Map of large draught of the trading port of the West Indies
A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto
Social Media
Additional Reading
“Afro-Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico” | Minority Rights Group
“The Requerimiento (1513)” in American Beginnings: 1492–1690 | National Humanities Center
“Juan Garrido: The first ‘African American’ in the New World” | National Park Service
“National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation: Historic Bridges of Puerto Rico, c. 1840–1950.” | National Park Service
“Two Houses Divided? The Parallel Histories of the Casa de Contratación and the Casa da Índia, 1500-1580” by Gustavo L. Romero
“Puerto Rico” | Encyclopedia Britannica
“Iberian Roots of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1440–1640” by David Wheat
“Tradition of Contraband: Secreting and Silencing the Illegal Importation and Exploitation of Enslaved Africans in Spanish Colonial Puerto Rico” by Jorge L. Chinea
“Documents illustrative of the history of the slave trade to America: Volume I” by Elizabeth Donnan
“The Early Iberian Slave Trade to the Spanish Caribbean, 1500-1580” by David Wheat
“Fostering a Sense of Community in Seventeenth-Century Puerto Rico: The Godparenthood of Enslaved Infants, Children, and Adults in San Juan, 1672–1706” by David M. Stark
"Taínos & Caribbean Indigenous Peoples" – José L. Marrero-Rosado
"African Laborers for a New Empire: Iberia, Slavery, and the Atlantic World" | Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
"Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico" | Library of Congress
"San Juan" | Encyclopedia Britannica
"The History of Puerto Rico: From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation" by Van Middledyk