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Sugar, slavery, & freedom in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Figueroa, Luis A. (Luis Antonio)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
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.
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Table of 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.