Grade Range: K-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, ArtifactsDate Posted: 1/27/2009
In the 15th century, decades before they sailed into the Caribbean, Spanish merchants, captains, and adventurers had already conquered and enslaved the people of the Canary Islands in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. On the western coast of continental Africa, the Portuguese had been cultivating a slavery-based economic policy. This legacy of conquest and slavery shaped the colonization of Puerto Rico and other islands in the Caribbean. Some of the first American encounters between Europeans, Indians, and Africans took place in Puerto Rico, and its early history of genocidal violence and physical exploitation was repeated throughout the Americas.
During the American Civil War, General Benjamin Butler so appreciated the heroic actions of Afric...
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The story of a group of slaves' escape on the underground railroad by following directions from t...
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