Buena Vista : life and work on a Puerto Rican hacienda, 1833-1904. / Guillermo A. Baralt ; translated by Andrew Hurley. txt

Por:

Baralt, Guillermo A, 1948-

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1999Descripción: xiv, 183 p. ill. ; photo. ; maps ; 26 cmTipo de contenido:

text

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9780807848012

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Buena Vista, 1833-1904. txt

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Clasificación LoC:

HD1471.P92 B37 1999

Contenidos:

Foreword to the English Translation / Teresita Martinez Vergne -- 1. Ponce in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- 2. The Founding of Buena Vista: From Farm to Cornmeal Factory -- 3. The Flour and Cornmeal Market in Ponce -- 4. Buena Vista: A Village of Slaves, 1833-1873 -- 5. Coffee at Buena Vista: The Farm Becomes a Coffee Plantation, 1868-1898 -- 6. Hired Workers, 1873-1898 -- 7. Buena Vista after the U.S. Invasion, 1898-1904 -- 8. Conclusions -- Chronology of Hacienda Buena Vista -- Inventory of Buena Vista, 1863 --

Tables -- 1.1. Population of Ponce, 1846 -- 1.2. Institutional and Administrative History of the Municipality of Ponce, 1800-1877 -- 2.1. Commercial Crops, Buena Vista -- 2.2. Inventory of Livestock, Buena Vista, 1846 -- 3.1. Main Crops in Ponce, 1864 -- 3.2. Corn Prices, Buena Vista, 1868 -- 3.3. Corn Purchases per Five-Year Period, 1850-1869 -- 3.4. Buena Vista's Yearly Purchases of Corn, 1858-1871 -- 3.5. Cornmeal Production at Buena Vista, 1850-1861 -- 3.6. Buyers of Buena Vista Cornmeal, 1854 -- 3.7. Income from Mill, 1850-1870 -- 4.1. Number of Slaves at Buena Vista, 1846-1872 -- 4.2. List of Slaves at Buena Vista, 1858 -- 4.3. Place of Birth of Buena Vista Slaves -- 4.4. Deaths Caused by Cholera in Ponce, 1855-1856 -- 4.5. Slave Deaths in Ponce, December 1855—November 1856 -- 4.6. Runaway Slaves in Ponce, 1853-1865 -- 5.1. Coffee Production in Puerto Rico, 1864-1896 -- 5.2. Coffee Production in Ponce, by Barrio, 1863 -- 5.3. Main Coffee-Producing Municipalities in Puerto Rico, 1897 -- 5.4. Coffee Prices, 1839-1894 -- 5.5. Coffee Exports, by Port, 1888 -- 5.6. Losses at Buena Vista from Hurricane San Narciso, 1867 -- 5.7. Replanting of Coffee Trees on Buena Vista, 1886 -- 5.8. Buena Vista Coffee Production, 1861-1897 -- 6.1. Jobs Done by Hired Workers at Buena Vista, 1873-1904 -- 6.2. Coffee Pickers at Buena Vista, 1874 -- 6.3. Coffee Pickers at Buena Vista, 1890 108 -- 6.4. Payment to Coffee Pickers per Almud of Coffee Picked at Buena Vista, 1874-1894 -- 6.5. Overseers at Buena Vista, 1872-1878 -- 6.6. Salaries at Buena Vista for All Hired Workers (approximately 10), 1875 -- 7.1. Coffee Production, Buena Vista, 1893-1900 --

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This book traces the history of Buena Vista, an estate located in the southern foothills of Puerto Rico's central mountain range. Now a popular living history museum, Buena Vista flourished in the nineteenth century -- first as a farm that furnished food for the city of Ponce and surrounding plantations, later as a producer of corn and cornmeal ground at the estate's water-powered mill, and finally as a coffee plantation.

Drawing on an impressive range of primary sources, Guillermo Baralt portrays the estate's history as a series of overlapping changes: from slavery to salaried labor, from primitive processing techniques to the latest in mill technology, from Spanish rule to American control, and from hard-scrabble country life to life as part of the world marketplace. Richly illustrated and written in a lively narrative style, Buena Vista paints a compelling portrait of an era, an island, a family, and an estate, bringing a period in Caribbean history to vivid life.

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Originally published as La Buena Vista, 1833-1904 : estancia de frutos menores, fábrica de harinas y hacienda cafetalera by the Fideicomiso de Conservación de Puerto Rico.

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Foreword to the English Translation / Teresita Martinez Vergne --
1. Ponce in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century --
2. The Founding of Buena Vista: From Farm to Cornmeal Factory --
3. The Flour and Cornmeal Market in Ponce --
4. Buena Vista: A Village of Slaves, 1833-1873 --
5. Coffee at Buena Vista: The Farm Becomes a Coffee Plantation, 1868-1898 --
6. Hired Workers, 1873-1898 --
7. Buena Vista after the U.S. Invasion, 1898-1904 --
8. Conclusions --
Chronology of Hacienda Buena Vista --
Inventory of Buena Vista, 1863 --

Tables --
1.1. Population of Ponce, 1846 --
1.2. Institutional and Administrative History of the Municipality of Ponce, 1800-1877 --
2.1. Commercial Crops, Buena Vista --
2.2. Inventory of Livestock, Buena Vista, 1846 --
3.1. Main Crops in Ponce, 1864 --
3.2. Corn Prices, Buena Vista, 1868 --
3.3. Corn Purchases per Five-Year Period, 1850-1869 --
3.4. Buena Vista's Yearly Purchases of Corn, 1858-1871 --
3.5. Cornmeal Production at Buena Vista, 1850-1861 --
3.6. Buyers of Buena Vista Cornmeal, 1854 --
3.7. Income from Mill, 1850-1870 --
4.1. Number of Slaves at Buena Vista, 1846-1872 --
4.2. List of Slaves at Buena Vista, 1858 --
4.3. Place of Birth of Buena Vista Slaves --
4.4. Deaths Caused by Cholera in Ponce, 1855-1856 --
4.5. Slave Deaths in Ponce, December 1855—November 1856 --
4.6. Runaway Slaves in Ponce, 1853-1865 --
5.1. Coffee Production in Puerto Rico, 1864-1896 --
5.2. Coffee Production in Ponce, by Barrio, 1863 --
5.3. Main Coffee-Producing Municipalities in Puerto Rico, 1897 --
5.4. Coffee Prices, 1839-1894 --
5.5. Coffee Exports, by Port, 1888 --
5.6. Losses at Buena Vista from Hurricane San Narciso, 1867 --
5.7. Replanting of Coffee Trees on Buena Vista, 1886 --
5.8. Buena Vista Coffee Production, 1861-1897 --
6.1. Jobs Done by Hired Workers at Buena Vista, 1873-1904 --
6.2. Coffee Pickers at Buena Vista, 1874 --
6.3. Coffee Pickers at Buena Vista, 1890 108 --
6.4. Payment to Coffee Pickers per Almud of Coffee Picked at Buena Vista, 1874-1894 --
6.5. Overseers at Buena Vista, 1872-1878 --
6.6. Salaries at Buena Vista for All Hired Workers (approximately 10), 1875 --
7.1. Coffee Production, Buena Vista, 1893-1900 --

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CHOICE Review

Coffee from Puerto Rico is credited by connoisseurs with being the best grown in the Americas. This book is the English translation of a 1988 monograph centered on the Vives clan and the landholding of Buena Vista. In 1821 the Catalonian Salvador de Vives fled Venezuela after the defeat of the royalists and found a new home in the southern city of Ponce. Between 1833 and 1838 he acquired what seemed to be unproductive land in the hinterland of Ponce and proceeded to plant plantains and coffee. A few years later he diversified into corn meal to feed slaves on neighboring sugar plantations. In 1868 his son Salvador Vives introduced improved coffee varieties on the estate and turned Buena Vista into the most innovative coffee plantation on the island. The incorporation of Puerto Rico into the US opened that huge market to the products of the Vives's estate and increased their wealth. By the turn of the century the Vives were financially and politically powerful in southern Puerto Rico, and Buena Vista was the most advanced hacienda. A revealing story on agricultural modernization conducted by entrepreneurs who were clever in seizing the opportunities offered by historical turnabouts. General readers; undergraduates through faculty. C. N. Caviedes; University of Florida

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Guillermo A. Baralt is professor of history at the University of Puerto Rico. Andrew Hurley is professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico.

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