Black History in Puerto Rico

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.This presented a problem for the Spanish Crown,since they depended on slavery as a means of manpower for the mines and construction of forts. Their solution was to import slaves from Africa and,as a consequence,the vast majority of the Africans who immigrated to Puerto Rico did so as a result of the slave trade from many different areas of the African continent.
Notable Puerto Ricans of African Ancestry are as follows :

1.Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
2.Jose Celso Barbosa
3.Rafel Hernandez Marin
4.Juan Morel Campos
5. Sylvia del Villard
6.Roberto Clemente
7.Emilio"Millito"Navarro
8.Jesus Colon
9.Orlando Cepeda
10. Pedro Flores
11.Felix Trinidad
12.Juano Hernandez
13.Bernie Williams

There are thousands of more notable Puerto Ricans with African Ancestry,which are to numerous to name,and these Puerto Ricans are just as much African as any so-called African American.