Afro Puerto Rico: The Islands Ties to Slavery

[IVoNzIpPeRI]

puerto ricans are black too. we need to teach this in high schools across america some african americans say were not black and that is ignorant.

[redax1]

Here's a bit of history no one ever talks about, and is very interesting.

Juan Garrido was a Spanish Conquistador who went to "discover and pacify the islands of San Juan de Buriquén de Puerto Rico". He was a free man - and one of many African Conquistadores from Spain who participated in all the voyages from Spain to the Caribbean. You can read his letter to the Queen in both Spanish and English by searching his name in Google and Wikipedia.

You can read his letter to the Queen

[StaTown325]

I didn't know the blacks were slaves over there too..we have black some where down the line..being puerto rican..dont we? well im half so i really don't know..ive been to pr onnly twice..

[Applebaum]

the entire Caribbean was invented by Eurpeans specifically to enslave kidnapped West Africans and force them to work on the islands and in America and throuout south America for the rest of the lives for 400years

there is somuch ignorance about Slavery and the Caribbean

[LaSoto789]

yes, my afro-boricua were kidnapped by other tribal enemies in africa and I guess exchange for goods.

[chsn09]

You are right, but there is ignorance of slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean !

[nyiskillinme]

The slave ships actually stopped in the Caribbean first. Africans that came directly from the continent often fought the slave holders so they would be "broken" in the islands before they came to the US.

[FearOfaBlackChannel]

Good concise explanation-Hispanics are&have been covertly racist against Blacks&it's only lately that the illusion of inclusion they hide behind is becoming known,shifting focus away from Europeans back to the SPANISH who are vastly overlooked when considering the history of slavery;&from among which we will find slave-ship owners with names like Lopez,Cabrero&Acosta.Also the term "Dominican" is after the murderous inquisitors of St. Dominic,'Los Perros De Dios' who drove the Moors out of Spain.

[lan3454]

Thank you for the video, is good to see someone

talking about that part of history