Cartagena & Palenque — A Roots & Routes Spark Guide

The first free Black town in all of the Americas — won, not granted.Cartagena was one of the largest slave ports in South America. But enslaved Africans escaped into the mountains and built San Basilio de Palenque — the first free African town in the Americas. They defended it so fiercely that in 1691 the Spanish Crown issued a royal decree recognizing their freedom, generations before Colombia itself was free.This single-destination guide goes deep on Cartagena & Palenque: the full history, the must-see sites and how to experience them, the facts the textbooks skipped, and a complete plan-your-visit section (best time, getting there, plus visa and health basics).Instant PDF download — read on any device or print for the road.Part of the “The Atlantic Crossing” thread in the Roots & Routes collection — a Black traveler's guide to the world. A Novella's World Experience.

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