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Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico (Paperback)
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Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico (Paperback)
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Scholarship on slavery in the Caribbean frequently emphasizes sugar
and tobacco production, but this unique work illustrates the
importance of the region's hato economy-a combination of livestock
ranching, foodstuff cultivation, and timber harvesting-on the
living patterns among slave communities. David Stark makes use of
extensive Catholic parish records to provide a comprehensive
examination of slavery in Puerto Rico and across the Spanish
Caribbean. He reconstructs slave families to examine incidences of
marriage, as well as birth and death rates. The result are
never-before-analyzed details on how many enslaved Africans came to
Puerto Rico, where they came from, and how their populations grew
through natural increase. Stark convincingly argues that when
animal husbandry drove much of the island's economy, slavery was
less harsh than in better-known plantation regimes geared toward
crop cultivation. Slaves in the hato economy experienced more
favorable conditions for family formation, relatively relaxed work
regimes, higher fertility rates, and lower mortality rates.
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