A lot has been said about 1619, but not enough about 1520, the year of the first documented voyage of a ship disembarking enslaved Africans in the Americas. #twitterstorians #africanstudies
The Spanish Archives have made the original available to the public at http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/show/124838
Diversas relaciones entre 1519-1520:Puerto Rico

Archivo General de Indias, PATRONATO,175,R.9

http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/show/124838
The corresponding entry on @slavevoyages is available below. https://slavevoyages.org/voyage/database#searchId=vJUKnx2Z
The ship was named Santa María de la Luz. It landed 44 Africans in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Thanks to Alex Borucki for the reminder! He notes: one has to know 16th century Spanish to read the document.
2020: 500th anniversary of the European trade in enslaved Africans across the Atlantic #500th #slaveryarchive
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