Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
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Focusing on Puerto Rico's southeastern coastal region of Guayama, a leading center of sugar cane agriculture, Figueroa examines the transition from slave labor to free labor after the 1873 abolition of slavery in colonial Puerto Rico. Arguing that the black population and their contributions to the economic health of Puerto Rico have been distorted and underplayed, he corrects misconceptions about what ex-slaves did after emancipation and debunks standing myths about race relations in Puerto Rico.
1Racial projects and racial formations in a frontier Caribbean society152The hurricane of sugar and slavery and the broken memories it left behind, 1810s-1860s433Seeking freedom before abolition : strategies of adaptive resistance among Afro-Guayameses794The gale-force winds of 1868-1873 : tearing down slavery1055The contested terrain of "free" labor, 1873-18761216Labor mobility, peonization, and the peasant way that never was1517Conflicts and solidarities on the path to proletarianization175
