@article{Walicek_2012, title={Migration from Anguilla to 18th Century Puerto Rico: A Socio-linguistic Approach to African Identities in Caribbean Context}, url={https://revistas.upr.edu/index.php/cih/article/view/16400}, abstractNote={<p>This essay offers preliminary documentation of a 1717 migration between Anguilla, a small English colonial settlement in the Eastern Caribbean, and the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico. It has two main objectives: first, to chronicle the movement of a group of enslaved persons of African ancestry to Crab Island, (contemporary Vieques, part of the US Commonwealth of Puerto Rico) during the second decade of the eighteenth century; second, to contemplate the roles that language change and language contact play in processes of identity formation.</p>}, number={7}, journal={Cuadernos de Investigación Histórica}, author={Walicek, Don E.}, year={2012}, month={jun.}, pages={51–68} }