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Scope and Contents Signed Spanish colonial freed slave work contract, "Contrato Esclavo liberto", Arecibo, Puerto Rico. The 1873 Abolition Act ending slavery in Puerto Rico stipulated slaves apprentice under their former masters for another three years in exchange for food and small compensation. "In the very loyal town of Arecibo on the 30th of April, before Mr. Corregidor, who stated that they had freely and spontaneously adjusted the personal service contract under the following clauses..."The freedman...

Scope and Contents Slave registry document, officially called "Empadronamiento General de esclavos", from Arecibo, Puerto Rico. The enslaved person's name is Melchor, and he is described as being of small stature, with black eyes and skin, and originally from Africa. Melchor is being signed into the property of Felipe Correa. The document bears the official coat of amrs of Puerto Rico, is signed by the local authorities, and is officially stamped with red "ultramar" stamp. Slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico...

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Slave registry document, "Folio Num. 1182". The document includes a section with the physical description of the enslaved person, as well as a record of the person's ownership in the town of Arecibo. The enslaved individual is recorded as 52 years old Mauricio, a Black man, tall in stature with a regular beard. The document is signed by the owner, a notary, and an a commisar.

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The album consists of sixteen color photographs of the island of Puerto Rico (two leaves are missing, so the album originally contained eighteen photographs).

Scope and Contents An exceedingly rare illustrated promotional pamphlet for a now-lost early "race film" produced by and starring Black Cuban American Richard D. Maurice. Maurice was born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1893, and moved to Detroit in 1903. He founded the Maurice Film Company in 1920, which produced "Nobody's Children" (also known as "Our Christianity and Nobody's Child") later that year. While no prints are known to survive, this leaflet describes the film as a thriller: "It is a drama of the virile type...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a 74 page, leather-bound diary kept by Sterling Morton of a trip to the Caribbean and Central and South America, January 17 - February 20, 1912. His wife, Preston Owsley Morton, accompanied him. The voyage began in New York City on January 20, 1912 onboard the SS Laurentia of the White Star Line. The ship traveled to Havana, Cuba first. From Havana, the Mortons rented a car and toured Matanzas. Subsequent ports called by the Laurentia were Santiago de Cuba,...

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Postcard contains a note written in Spanish to family expressing sentiment to an aunt and grandmother with the promise of a full letter at a later time; signed: Enrique.

Scope and Contents This document is a contemporary manuscript version of the royal letter granting Spaniards and foreigners a conditional license to trade negro slaves with certain Spanish American colonies with the aim of improving agriculture in the islands of Santo Domingo, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. The letter, in 16 paragraphs, permits slave trafficking for 6 years with the viceroyalties of St. Fé (Bogotá, modern Colombia) and Buenos Aires, the captain generalcy of Caracas, and the islands of St. Domingo,...

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This informational pamphlet provides a summary of the reconstructed government of Bahamas from a monarchial form of Government to a democratic form of Government. A comprehensive view of the newly reconstructed demoratic government of Bahamas as result of the 1964 Constituion.

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This memorial service program outlines the order of the service and consists of an obiturary and various illustrations of his life's work and achievements. A memorial service program for Sir Randol Fawkes held on June 2000 In Bahamas.