TY  - BOOK
AU  - Figueroa,Luis A.
TI  - Sugar, slavery, & freedom in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico
SN  - 0807829498 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HT1089.G83 F54 2005
U1  - 306.3/62/0972958 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Puerto Rico
KW  - Guayama Region
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Local
KW  - Sugarcane industry
KW  - Plantation workers
KW  - Labor supply
KW  - Freedmen
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Emancipation
KW  - Race relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-276) and index; Introduction --; 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 --; Conclusion; View table of contents on the Internet via the World Wide Web
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005017471.html
ER  -