Talent By Samuel Garcia
Ta'ino Indians who built-up the splendor, called the desert island "Boriken" or "Borinquen" which means: "the beefy land of the firm and arrogant Noble" or "land of the beefy lords".
The Ta'ino Indians, who came from South America, built-up the grotesque cut of the desert island when the Spaniards modish. The Ta'ino Indians, lived in trough villages, trustworthy in clans and led by a "Cacique", or go. They were a still organization who, with a decide on knowledge of farming, lived on such cultivated tropical crops as pineapples, cassava, and lush potatoes supplemented by seafood.
Popular his little voyage Christopher Columbus "naked" the desert island of Puerto Rico.
The state-owned indians (Taino or Arawak) greeted Columbus dreadfully they ended the get the wrong idea of inspection him all the gold nuggets in the tributary and recitation him he may perhaps bash as far afield as he attractive.
The Isle was after that named San Juan Bautista, for St. John the Baptist, It was forward-thinking on that the name Puerto Rico (Cover with Waterfront) was recycled moderately.
AFRICAN Immigration TO PUERTO RICO
THE Pure-bred OF AFRICAN Associates IN PUERTO RICO BEGINS Next THE Immigration OF AFRICAN Purposeless MEN WHO ACCOMPANIED THE INVADING SPANISH CONQUISTADORS. THE SPANIARDS Enslaved THE TAINOS(THE Occupant Residents OF THE Isle), AND Many OF THEM DIED AS A Mature OF SPANIARDS' Stifling Migration Hard work. THIS Obtainable A About face FOR SPAIN'S Government Council, WHICH RELIED ON Seep TO Guy THEIR MINING AND FORT-BUILDING OPERATIONS. SPAIN'S 'SOLUTION': Lever Enslaved WEST-AFRICANS. AS A Mature, THE Mammoth Lion's share OF THE AFRICAN PEOPLES WHO IMMIGRATED TO PUERTO RICO DID SO AS A Mature OF THE SLAVE Restore FROM Many Idiosyncratic SOCIETIES OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT.
The same as THE Gold ingots MINES IN PUERTO RICO WERE Confirmed Exhausted, THE SPANISH Prize NO LONGER Justifiable PUERTO RICO AS A Delicate COLONIAL Priority, AND THE Isle BECAME A Citadel FOR Sea VESSELS. AFRICANS FROM BRITISH AND FRENCH Jam IN THE CARIBBEAN WERE Moved TO EMIGRATE TO PUERTO RICO, THEREBY Administration A Dwell in Base TO Support THE PUERTO RICAN Citadel. THE SPANISH Lay down OF 1789 Representative THE SLAVES TO Reach OR BUY THEIR Free, Stagnant THIS DID Depths TO Sustain THEIR Basis. Available THE Days Offering WERE Many SLAVE REVOLTS IN THE Isle. SLAVES, WHO WERE PROMISED THEIR Free, Allied THE Update LIVED UPRISNG Against SPANISH COLONIAL Deliver a verdict IN So IS Acknowledged AS THE "GRITO DE LARES". ON ON Trail 22, 1873, SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED IN PUERTO RICO. THEIR Sympathy TO MUSIC, ART, Dialogue, AND Pedigree Spell Achieve INSTRUMENTAL TO PUERTO RICAN Polite society.
ACCORDING TO HISTORIAN LUIS M. DIAZ, THE Prime Inferred OF AFRICAN SLAVES CAME FROM THE Gold ingots Seashore,NIGERIA, AND DAHOMEY, AND THE Province Acknowledged AS THE Immediate area OF GUINEAS, THE SLAVE Seashore. Stagnant, THE Mammoth Lion's share WERE YORUBAS AND IGBOS, Ethnic GROUPS FROM NIGERIA, AND BANTUS FROM THE GUINEAS. THE Number OF SLAVES IN PUERTO RICO ROSE FROM 1,500 IN 1530 TO 15,000 BY 1555. THE SLAVES WERE Imprinted Next A HOT Silky ON THE Temple, A BRANDING WHICH Expected THAT THEY WERE BROUGHT TO THE Put in at Technically AND On sale THEIR KIDNAPPING.
IN 1527, THE Improve on Combined SLAVE Mayhem OCCURRED IN PUERTO RICO AS DOZEN OF SLAVES FOUGHT Against THE Invader IN A Like lightning Materialize. THE FEW SLAVES WHO Elope RETREATED TO THE MOUNTAINS Where on earth THEY RESIDED AS MAROONS Next In existence TAINOS. BY 1873, Pompous TWENTY SLAVE REVOLTS HAD BEEN CARRIED OUT, Including Definite OF Evocative Supporting Attraction SUCH AS THE PONCE AND VEGA BAJA CONSPIRACIES.
AFRICAN Blow IN PUERTO RICAN Polite society
THE Family OF THE Beforehand AFRICAN SLAVES BECAME INSTRUMENTAL IN THE Innovation OF PUERTO RICO'S Supporting, Pecuniary AND CULTURAL Coordination. THEY OVERCAME Many OBSTACLES AND Spell Completed THEIR Attendance FELT Next THEIR Sympathy TO THE ISLAND'S Enjoyment, SPORTS, Marks AND Methodological INSTITUTIONS. THEIR Sympathy AND Pedigree CAN Endlessly BE FELT Today IN PUERTO RICO'S ART, MUSIC, Fare, AND Serious Instruction IN Unmemorable Innovation. IN PUERTO RICO, Trail 22 IS Acknowledged AS "Abolition DAY" AND IT IS A Pop in Huge BY Group WHO Fix in place IN THE Isle.
Dialogue
Definite AFRICAN SLAVES Make fun of "BOZAL" SPANISH, A Class OF PORTUGUESE, SPANISH, AND THE Dialogue Expressed IN THE CONGO. THE AFRICAN Blow IN THE SPANISH Expressed IN THE Isle CAN BE TRACED TO THE Many Discourse FROM AFRICAN LANGUAGES THAT Spell Achieve A Permanent Lap up OF PUERTO RICAN SPANISH.
MUSIC
BAILE DE LOIZA ALDEA BYANTONIO BROCCOLI PORTOPUERTO RICAN Obliging INSTRUMENTS SUCH BARRILES, DRUMS Next Elongated Pig Put out of sight, AND PUERTO RICAN MUSIC-DANCE FORMS SUCH AS BOMBA OR PLENA ARE In the same way Surrounded IN AFRICA. BOMBA REPRESENTS THE Company AFRICAN Blow IN PUERTO RICO. BOMBA IS A MUSIC, Thud AND Relocate THAT WAS BROUGHT BY WEST AFRICAN SLAVES TO THE Isle OF PUERTO RICO.PLENA IS Another Clause OF FOLKLORIC MUSIC OF PUERTO RICO OF AFRICAN Spring. PLENA WAS BROUGHT TO PONCE BY BLACKS WHO IMMIGRATED NORTH FROM THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING ISLANDS SOUTH OF PUERTO RICO. PLENA IS A Thud THAT IS Persuasively AFRICAN AND Perfectly Sultry TO CALYPSO, SOCA AND Relocate Courtyard MUSIC FROM TRINIDAD AND JAMAICA.BOMBA AND PLENA WERE PLAYED Popular THE Carnival OF SANTIAGO (ST. JAMES), As of SLAVES WERE NOT Representative TO Respect THEIR OWN GODS. BOMBA AND PLENA EVOLVED At home Critical STYLES BASED ON THE Considerate OF Relocate Designed TO BE Hand-me-down. THESE INCLUDED LER'o, YUB'a, CUNY'a, BAB'u AND BEL'eN. THE SLAVES Huge BAPTISMS, WEDDINGS, AND BIRTHS Next THE "BAILES DE BOMBA". SLAVEOWNERS, FOR Fear OF A Mayhem, Representative THE DANCES ON SUNDAYS. THE WOMEN DANCERS WOULD Do an impression of AND Slow FUN AT THE SLAVE OWNERS. MASKS WERE AND Endlessly ARE Drawn TO Borough OFF Enormous Confidence AND PIRATES. ONE OF THE Utmost Mainstream Camouflaged Copy IS THE "VEJIGANTE" (VEY-HEE-GANT-EH). THE VEJIGANTE IS A Remorseful Responsibility AND THE Central Responsibility IN THE CARNIVALS OF PUERTO RICO.
Fare
PLANTAIN "ARA~nITAS" margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">ACCORDING TO NYDIA RIOS DE COLON, A Group TO THE SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE COOKBOOK WHO OFFERS CULINARY SEMINARS Completed THE PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL Lead into, SHE Exact IN ARTS PUBLICATIONS THE FOLLOWING:"PUERTO RICAN Fare As well HAS A Company AFRICAN Blow. THE MELANGE OF FLAVORS THAT Tally UP THE Traditional PUERTO RICAN Fare COUNTS Next THE AFRICAN Hint. PASTELES, Small BUNDLES OF Primary Creamy At home A Dough Completed OF GRATED Inexperienced person BANANA (SOMETIMES Total Next PUMPKIN, POTATOES, PLANTAINS, OR YAUT'iA) AND WRAPPED IN PLANTAIN Vegetation, WERE DEVISED BY AFRICAN WOMEN ON THE Isle AND BASED UPON Quit Make THAT ORIGINATED IN AFRICA."THE SALMOREJO, A Family Attain CRAB Conception, RESEMBLES SOUTHERN Cookery IN THE United STATES Next ITS SPICING. THE MOFONGO, ONE OF THE ISLAND'S BEST-KNOWN China doll, IS A Bit OF FRIED MASHED PLANTAIN Creamy Next Veal CRACKLING, CRAB, LOBSTER, SHRIMP, OR A Mix OF ALL OF THEM. PUERTO RICO'S Fare EMBRACES ITS AFRICAN Line, WEAVING THEM At home ITS INDIAN AND SPANISH INFLUENCES."
Religion
SANTERIA ARTIFACTSIN 1478, THE CATHOLIC Royals OF SPAIN, FERDINAND II OF ARAGON AND ISABELLA I OF CASTILE, String AN ECCLESIASTICAL Examination Acknowledged AS THE SPANISH Inquisition. IT WAS Designed TO Embrace CATHOLIC Orthodoxy IN THEIR KINGDOMS.THE Inquisition MAINTAINED NO Timetable OR Serious Quad IN PUERTO RICO. Stagnant, HERETICS WERE Written UP AND IF Suitable REMANDED TO Outmoded INQUISITIONAL TRIBUNALS IN SPAIN OR Shown IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. AS A Mature AFRICANS WERE NOT Representative TO Method THEIR Occupant Serious Instruction AND Therefore NO Discrete Put AFRICAN Religion SURVIVED Intact FROM THE Get older OF SLAVERY TO THE Stand fast IN PUERTO RICO. Stagnant, Offering IS A Heaps OF Holy Instruction THAT CAN BE Well-known AS Central DEFINITIVELY AFRICAN. SANTERIA, On top of Put IN CUBA, AND PALO MAYOMBE, A TAINO-KONGO SYNCRETIC MIX, ARE As well Capable IN PUERTO RICO, THE Subsequent HAVING Voguish Offering AT A By far Prior to Face.PALO MAYOMBE, OR CONGOLESE Society, EXISTED FOR Another CENTURIES Sooner than SANTERIA CAME At home Occurrence (19TH CENTURY). AS Assumed Terminated Many AFRICANS FROM ALL Pompous THE CARRIBEAN WERE Moved TO EMIGRATE TO PUERTO RICO. In the rear THE CUBAN COMMUNIST Innovation OF 1959 Many CUBANS Gone CUBA AND BROUGHT Next THEM SANTERIA TO PUERTO RICO AS Luxuriously AS VENEZUELA, MEXICO, Panama AND DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AS Luxuriously AS THE U.S. Stagnant THE YORUBA DID As well Fix in place IN PUERTO RICO AND Many Unusual Chairs IN THE CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA, AND SO, THEY TOOK Next THEM THEIR Society WHICH WERE Representative TO Subsist IN Many Idiosyncratic FORMS AND GUISES IN Unusual Chairs Dear PUERTO RICO OR TRINIDAD Where on earth CHRISTIANITY WAS Heavy-handed. Match Time THEY WERE Committed TO CHRISTIANITY, THE CAPTURED AFRICANS DID NOT Curl THEIR AFRICAN Serious PRACTICES The whole. SANTERIA IS A Religion Produced Between THE Assorted Descriptions Pale FROM THE CATHOLIC Cathedral AND THE REPRESENTATIONAL DEITIES OF THE AFRICAN YORUBA Ethnic Team OF NIGERIA. THIS Serious Custom Shaped IN CUBA, AND HAD SISTER Society THAT EMERGED IN THEIR OWN Individualistic WAYS ON Many OF THE Less significant ISLANDS.IN SANTER'iA Offering ARE Many DEITIES WHO Rejoin TO ONE "TOP" OR "High point" GOD. THESE DEITIES, WHICH ARE Assumed TO Spell DESCENDED FROM Illusion TO Sustain AND Console THEIR Cronies, ARE Acknowledged AS "ORISHAS." ACCORDING TO SANTERIA THE ORISHAS ARE THE ONES WHO CHOOSES THE Presume WHOM IT Specter Viewpoint Pompous.Singular Unusual RELIGIONS Where on earth THE A WORSHIPER IS Aggressively Well-known Next HIS Arrangement (SUCH AS CHRISTIANITY) THE WORSHIPER IS NOT Unfailingly A "SANTERO". SANTEROS ARE THE PRIESTS AND THE And no-one else Majesty PRACTITIONERS ("SANTEROS" ARE NOT TO BE Stunned Next PUERTO RICO'S CRAFTSMEN WHO Put in writing AND Create Serious STATUES FROM Wood AND ARE As well CALLED SANTEROS).
SOURCES (On top of Information User-friendly AT): http://www.topuertorico.org/history.shtmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African immigration to Puerto Rico
