Online Photographic Archive of the “First Blacks in the Americas”

CUNY-DSI_Flickr_01The Dominican Studies Institute at the City College of New York has debuted a new online archive of its extensive collection of photographs of places from the early colonial times in the Dominican Republic. The collection entitled, “First Blacks in the Americas,” contains more than 2,900 photographs. The photographs show sites relevant to African history from the 16th century through colonial times.

The full collection can be accessed here.

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