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University of Puerto Rico to Create New Afro-Diasporic and Racial Studies Program
[Many thanks to Michael O’Neal (Society for Caribbean Studies) for bringing this item to our attention.]
Latino Rebels reports that, earlier this month, the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras campus announced that it will create a new program of Afro-Diasporic and Racial Studies, thanks in part to a $700,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation [. . .].
“This grant will support the advancement of the Afro-Descendant and Racial Studies Program from the College of General Studies at the Río Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico. We are honored by this accomplishment as this generous award demonstrates the Mellon Foundation’s commitment to our program,” the January 11 release said.
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New Book ”From the Galleons to the Highlands: Slave Trade Routes in the Spanish Americas”
From the Galleons to the Highlands: Slave Trade Routes in the Spanish Americas [University of New Mexico Press (Diálogos Series) 2020] edited by Alex Borucki, David Eltis, and David Wheat, explores transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish America.
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University of New Mexico Press): The essays in this book demonstrate the importance of transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish America, highlighting the Spanish colonies’ previously underestimated significance within the broader history of the slave trade. Spanish America received African captives not only directly via the transatlantic slave trade but also from slave markets in the Portuguese, English, Dutch, French, and Danish Americas, ultimately absorbing more enslaved Africans than any other imperial jurisdict
1858 (dated)
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Highlighting a little-known episode in history, this is a rare 1858 broadside contract between the
Compañia Asiatica de la Habana, and a Chinese laborer arranging for his importation to Cuba to work as an indentured servant on a sugar plantation. This document and others like it, provide an invaluable and detailed record of the Chinese experience in Cuba. An illustration at top center shows a ship and a Chinese laborer working next to a Cuban farmer.
The IndentureThe indenture, printed in Spanish on one side and Chinese on the other, was singed in Macao on October 18, 1858. It commits the Chinese laborer Chy Anung (蔡昂), then 23 years old, to work for a period of eight years in Cuba, at which point he would be supposedly granted his freedom. The document is singed by Chy Anung, as well as the