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Slavery Continues - in Puerto Rico.

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Slavery Continues - in Puerto Rico.
"Registro de esclavos" (registration for slaves), the person listed as "property" on "island of Puerto-Rico," c. 1870. Partly printed, in Spanish, including slave's stature, skin, hair, and eye color, and other descriptors. Signed by owner, commissioner, and registrar. 6 x 8 1/4. Ornate anti-counterfeiting typographic masthead, "Registro de Esclavos." Revenue and rubber stamps. Bookworm holes, mounted on looseleaf paper, else about very good. Originally brought to Puerto Rico to toil in the gold mines and ginger and sugar plantations, slavery persisted there til 1873, after some twenty revolts over a 350 year period.