AfriGeneas Caribbean Research Forum [PUERTO RICO] African Slaves
in puerto rico/esclavos Names of African Slaves in Puerto Rico/
Puerto Ricans are West Indians also, for Puerto Rico is part of
the West Indies once owed by Visoguth colonizers, they took the
land from the original people name Taino who they subjugated and
made the taino slaves, Some Taino survived and are still in
Puerto Rico and many Puerto Ricans are mixed with Taino and
mixed with the blood of the African whether they are black
skinned or white skin. Puerto Rico is the Spanish West Indies,
but in reality it is the land of the Taino. The African was
taken to Puerto Rica as slaves. Stripped of their identity and
African Homeland and taken to Puerto Rico, these are the slaves,
that brought the soul, the sounds of the drums, the dance, the
knowledge, the science of healing, the religion of yaruba,
islam, african christianity,and brought the beauty of the
falani, mandingo, and hundreds of other beutiful african tribes
to puerto rico. Gone But not