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Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico (Paperback, New edition)
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Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico (Paperback, New edition)
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Talks about sugar workers before and after emancipation. The
contributions of the black population to the history and economic
development of Puerto Rico have long been distorted and
underplayed, Luis A. Figueroa contends. Focusing on the
southeastern coastal region of Guyana, one of Puerto Rico's three
leading centers of sugarcane agriculture, Figueroa examines the
transition from slavery and slave labor to freedom and free labor
after the 1873 abolition of slavery in colonial Puerto Rico. He
corrects misconceptions about how ex-slaves went about building
their lives and livelihoods after emancipation, and debunks
standing myths about race relations in Puerto Rico. Historians have
assumed that after emancipation in Puerto Rico, as in other parts
of the Caribbean and the U.S. South, former slaves acquired some
land of their own and became subsistence farmers. Figueroa finds
that in Puerto Rico, however, this was not an option because both
capital and land available for sale to the Afro - Puerto Rican
population were scarce. Paying particular attention to class,
gender, and race, his account of how these libertos joined the
labor market profoundly revises our understanding of the
emancipation process and the evolution of the working class in
Puerto Rico.
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