Figueroa, Luis A.

Sugar, slavery, & freedom in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico Sugar, slavery, and freedom in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico Luis A. Figueroa. - Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press c2005. - 290 p. 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-276) and index.

Racial projects and racial formations in a frontier Caribbean society -- The hurricane of sugar and slavery and the broken memories it left behind, 1810-1860s -- Seeking freedom before abolition : strategies of adaptive resistance among Afro-Guayameses -- The gale-force winds of 1868-1873 : tearing down slavery -- The contested terrain of "free" labor, 1873-1876 -- Labor mobility, peonization, and the peasant way that never was -- Conflicts and solidarities on the path to proletarianization -- Introduction -- Conclusion.



0807829498 (cloth : alk. paper) 080785610X (pbk. : alk. paper)

9780807856109

2005017471

GBA583982


Slavery--History--Puerto Rico--Guayama Region--19th century.
Sugarcane industry--History--Puerto Rico--Guayama Region--19th century.
Plantation workers--History--Puerto Rico--Guayama Region--19th century.
Labor supply--19th century.
Freedmen--History--Puerto Rico--Guayama Region--19th century.
Slaves--Emancipation--History--Puerto Rico--Guayama Region--19th century.


Puerto Rico--Race relations--History--19th century.

HT1089.G83 / F54 2005

306.3/62/0972958