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Black history in Puerto Rico
Notable Puerto Ricans of African Ancestry
First row:1.Arturo Alfonso Schomburg 2.José Celso Barbosa Second row: 3.Juan Morel Campos 4.Roberto Clemente

Black history in Puerto Rico begins with the African freeman who arrived with the Spanish Conquistadors. The Spaniards enslaved the Tainos, who were the native inhabitants of the island, and many of them died as a result of the treatment that they had received.