Title Sugar, slavery, & freedom in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico / Luis A. Figueroa

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2005] ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (290 pages) Contents 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 Summary Sugar workers before and after emancipation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-276) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 13, 2016) Subject 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 SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery. Freed persons Labor supply Plantation workers Race relations Slavery Enslaved persons -- Emancipation Sugarcane industry Zuckerrohranbau Sklaverei Abschaffung SUBJECT Puerto Rico -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century Subject Puerto Rico Puerto Rico -- Guayama Region Puerto Rico Puerto Rico. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0807876836 9780807876831

Other Titles Sugar, slavery, and freedom in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico

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