SAN PEDRO CLAVER A REAL SAINT THAT LIVED IN CARTAGENA
This is the history of one man that gave it all for the African slaves that came to Cartagena. Peter Claver called “The Slave of Slaves”, lived at Cartagena de Indias, in the first half of the 17 th century. African descendants from all around the world give eternal tribute to this saint that lived to his motive of serving human beings, motored by God. Cartagena de Indias was from the 1500s till late 1800s the preeminent slave Spanish port in the Caribbean and where the biggest human slave trade happened. There were only 2 ports authorized by the kingdom of Spain to receive Portuguese slave ships sailing from Africa. Those were Veracruz, in the territory of The Nueva España, or how we know it today, Mexico and Cartagena de Indias in the Nueva Granada, today Colombia. The number one “legal” slave port market was Cartagena by far. More than double of the blacks that were slaved and imported “legally” by Spain to America, set foot for the f...