Turning Tides: Piecing Together the Past: An Island Surrounded, 1571 - 1729: Episode 2

Turning Tides

Turning Tides: Piecing Together the Past will discuss the history of Puerto Rico, its native peoples, and the colonization of the island. The second episode, An Island Surrounded, will cover the period from 1571 to 1729, in which Puerto Rico struggles to maintain their way of life against foreign attacks, imperial neglect, and disease.

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Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.

Researched and written by Joseph Pascone

Edited and revised by Melissa Marie Brown

Intro and Outro created by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone using Motion Array

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Episode 2 Sources:

1. Puerto Rico: An Interpretive History from Pre-Columbian Times to 1900, by Olga Jiménez de Wagenheim

2. History of Puerto Rico: A Panorama of Its People, by Fernando Picó

3. Puerto Rico: A Political and Cultural History, by Arturo Morales Carrión

4. Taíno Genealogy and Revitalization, by Richard Porrata, Ph.D.

5. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: Fourth Edition: From 3500 B.C. to the Present, by R. Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy

6. Langdon-Davies, John (1963). Carlos; the King Who Would Not Die. Prentice Hall. ASIN B0006AYR3A.

7. Exquemelin, Alexander. The History of the Bucaniers of America, 1684.

8. Johnson, Charles (1724). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates (1998 ed.). Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-732-5.

9. Pickering, David. "Pirates". CollinsGem. HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY. pp-52, 201. 2006.

10. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/tobacco-in-colonial-virginia/

11. https://cryssabazos.com/2018/11/14/sugar-production-in-17th-century-colonial-barbados/

12. https://brewminate.com/cacao-bean-to-chocolate-since-the-16th-century/

13. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12216/12216-h/12216-h.htm

14. Wikipedia