(SLAVERY ABOLITION PUERTO RICO) Registration form for 4 en

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(SLAVERY & ABOLITION--PUERTO RICO.) Registration form for 4 enslaved men at a hacienda in Puerto Rico. 2 printed pages, 8 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches, with extensive manuscript completions on the first page, signed by the hacienda owner and a commissioner, with an inked stamp of the Quebradillas municipality; moderate worming with slight loss of text, ink burns to one word. Quebradillas, PR, 26 September 1867

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Gradual emancipation in Puerto Rico, then a Spanish colony, did not begin until 1872. This official registration lists the enslaved people owned by Juan de Ygartua y Alberti at his hacienda Perseverancia in the barrio of Cacao, in Quebradillas on Puerto Rico's northwestern coast. The form is headed "Empadronamiento General de Esclavos." 4 enslaved men are listed, the three oldest named as born in Africa to unknown parents. Bonifacio, shown with the improbable age of 118, is "considered free due to his age," as is Luis aged 80. Miguel, aged 80, received no such dispensation. The youngest of the four was Crescencio, aged 47, born in Puerto Rico and described as the son of Andrea Domenich.