The Slave Registry of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1872

The 1872 Slave Registry dataset for Mayagüez offers a valuable resource for conducting research and analysis related to the history of slavery in Puerto Rico. This dataset, which is a subset of a larger registry that covers the entire island, provides detailed information on approximately 2,580 enslaved individuals in Mayagüez, the third largest slave precinct on the island during that period. The dataset consists of 51,600 entries recorded in nineteenth-century Spanish calligraphy, covering twenty-two fields that include information on the township, name, origin, manumission status, community, enslaver, kinship ties, occupation and physiognomic characteristics of the enslaved.