Sugar, slavery, & freedom in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico Luis A. Figueroa.
Detalles de publicación: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press c2005.Descripción: 290 p. 25 cmISBN:- 0807829498 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 080785610X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Sugar, slavery, and freedom in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico
- Slavery -- Puerto Rico -- Guayama Region -- History -- 19th century
- Sugarcane industry -- Puerto Rico -- Guayama Region -- History -- 19th century
- Plantation workers -- Puerto Rico -- Guayama Region -- History -- 19th century
- Labor supply -- 19th century
- Freedmen -- Puerto Rico -- Guayama Region -- History -- 19th century
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- Puerto Rico -- Guayama Region -- History -- 19th century
- Puerto Rico -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
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- HT1089.G83 F54 2005
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The contributions of the black population to the history and economic development of Puerto Rico have long been distorted and underplayed, Luis A. Figueroa contends. Focusing on the southeastern coastal region of Guayama, one of Puerto Rico's three leading centers of sugarcane agriculture, Figueroa examines the transition from slavery and slave labor to freedom and free labor after the 1873 abolition of slavery in colonial Puerto Rico. He corrects misconceptions about how ex-slaves went about building their lives and livelihoods after emancipation and debunks standing myths about race relations in Puerto Rico.
Historians have assumed that after emancipation in Puerto Rico, as in other parts of the Caribbean and the U.S. South, former slaves acquired some land of their own and became subsistence farmers. Figueroa finds that in Puerto Rico, however, this was not an option because both capital and land available for sale to the Afro-Puerto Rican population were scarce. Paying particular attention to class, gender, and race, his account of how these libertos joined the labor market profoundly revises our understanding of the emancipation process and the evolution of the working class in Puerto Rico.
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.
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