Sugar, slavery, and freedom in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico
By: Luis A. Figueroa.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Slavery -- Puerto Rico -- Guayama Region -- History -- 19th century.; Slaves -- Emancipation -- Puerto Rico -- Guayama Region -- History -- 19th century.; Freedmen -- Puerto Rico -- Guayama Region -- History -- 19th century.; Labor supply -- Puerto Rico -- Guayama Region -- History -- 19th century.; Plantation workers -- Puerto Rico -- Guayama Region -- History -- 19th century.; Sugarcane industry -- Puerto Rico -- Guayama Region -- History -- 19th century.; Puerto Rico -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Description: Focusing on the south-eastern coastal region of Guayama, one of Puerto Rico's three leading centres of sugarcane agriculture, Luis Figueroa examines the transition from slavery and slave labour to freedom and free labour after the 1873 abolition of slavery in colonial Puerto Rico.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Racial projects and racial formations in a frontier Caribbean society; title: The hurricane of sugar and slavery and the broken memories it left behind, 1810-1860s; title: Seeking freedom before abolition : strategies of adaptive resistance among Afro-Guayameses; title: The gale-force winds of 1868-1873 : tearing down slavery; title: The contested terrain of "free" labor, 1873-1876; title: Labor mobility, peonization, and the peasant way that never was; title: Conflicts and solidarities on the path to proletarianization; title: Conclusion.