TY - BOOK AU - TI - Buena Vista: life and work on a Puerto Rican hacienda, 1833-1904. SN - 9780807848012 AV - HD1471.P92 B37 1999 PY - 1999/// CY - Chapel Hill : PB - The University of North Carolina Press KW - Haciendas KW - Puerto Rico KW - Ponce KW - History KW - 19th century KW - LEMB KW - Coffee industry KW - Local KW - Grain trade KW - Ponce (P.R.) KW - Buena Vista Hacienda (P.R.) N1 - Include index; 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; Include Bibliography; 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 -- ER -