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Sugar, slavery, & freedom in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico
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- Creator
- Luis A. Figueroa
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- 290 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 080785610X, 9780807876831, 9780807856109, 9780807829493, 9798890871565, 0807876836, 0807829498
- OCLC
- ocn476236645, ocm60796099
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [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
Subjects
- Slavery -- Puerto Rico -- Guayama Region -- History -- 19th century.
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Puerto Rico -- Guayama Region -- History -- 19th century.
- Freed persons -- 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.