‘El Registro de Esclavos’: An archive you need to know’ at the 44th Annual AAHGS Conference
Taiguei (Greetings)! This has turned out to be a busy month! I finished my last article for the series on […]
African Ancestors, Afro-Indigenous Ancestry, Slavery
Antonio Rocha’s “Voyage through Death to Life upon these Shores”: The Malaga Speaks
Yesterday evening, the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project (MPCPMP) hosted Antonio Rocha’s performance of “Voyage through Death to
Tejer la vida: Lacemakers remembered
Some literature on mundillo and seven tejedoras (lacemakers) of Moca, Puerto Rico
Ubiles: AfroIndigenous Families of Northeast Puerto Rico
Who are the ancestors who held the Ubides surname in Northeast Puerto Rico?
Friendly Village: a second grade trip
The collision between context, experience and diaspora via an elementary school text, Friendly Village.
Neumann Gandia’s Resena Historica… de Moca (1910)
Two decades ago, I was in the Special Collections of U InterAmericana looking at their Herman Reichard Collection, where I
A Woman of Endurance, a novel by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
A Woman of Endurance, Dalma Llanos-Figueroa’s incredibly moving novel, tells the story of Pola a young African woman enslaved on a plantation in mid-19th century Puerto Rico. This vivid & cinematic story is a must-read book.
April 8, 1904: Jessie Walter Fewkes in Puerto Rico
After the Spanish-American War, the rush was on to obtain prehistoric objects from the Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands. Anthopologist Jessie Walter Fewkes assembled a large collection of stone objects. What did he do with them?
History Unscripted: Real Talk Around Reparations
Reparations involves applications that require documentation. This can be a highly emotional process as unforeseen limitations are encountered in gathering family histories.
People & Property: Enslaved Ancestors sold by Rafael del Valle to Jose Genaro del Valle, Barrio Malezas, Aguadilla, 1854
In 1854, the terms of a deed reveals the names of 19 enslaved ancestors included in a sale between cousins in mid-nineteenth century Aguadilla.