Non-Spanish cultural diversity in Puerto Rico and the basic foundation of Puerto Rican culture began with the mixture of the Spanish-Portuguese, Taíno Arauak and African cultures in the beginning of t
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Alejandrina Benítez de Gautier
Rock petroglyph overlaid with chalk in the Caguana Indigenous Ceremonial Center in Utuado, Puerto Rico.
Royal Decree of Graces, 1815
French immigration to Puerto Rico came about as a result of the economic and political situations which occurred in various places such as Louisiana, United States; Saint-Domingue, Haiti and in Europe
Cultural diversity in Puerto Rico
…early 19th century, Puerto Rico's cultures became more diversified with the arrival of hundreds of families from Non-Spanish countries such as Corsica, France, Germany, Greece, Palestine, Türkiye, Pakistan, India, England, and Ireland. To a lesser extent, other settlers came from Lebanon, China, Japan, Slavic…
Portrait of Antoine Daubón y Dupuy
1839 illustration of the 1802 Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot
Restored structures at Hacienda Lealtad, a coffee plantation established by Plumey, a Frenchman, in Lares, Puerto Rico
Where slaves were kept (as punishment) on Plumey's hacienda