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.