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From the moment the United States seized Puerto Rico, in 1898, to
the 1950s, the islanders employed various forms of resistance
against American colonial rule. Starting in the 1930s a group of
Nationalists was determined to free Puerto Rico, by armed struggle
if necessary. A Nationalist revolution took full force in 1950. A
commando of men and women attacked the governor's residence and
assaulted police stations throughout the island. Others attempted
to assassinate President Truman In Washington. In 1954, Dolores
Lebron led three male companions in an attack on the U.S. House of
Representatives in which five congressmen were shot for keeping
Puerto Rico in bondage. Massive arrests followed and forty-one
women were detained, two of whom were sentenced to life in prison.
While the male Nationalists have been celebrated as heroes in
Puerto Rico, the women have gone unmentioned This book seeks to
rescue the stories of the women who gave up their freedom in the
quest to liberate their homeland.
This book is a socioeconomic interpretation of Puerto Rico's first
and most significant attempt to end its colonial relationship with
Spain. Looking at the imperial policies and conditions within
Puerto Rico that led to the 1868 rebellion known as "El Grito de
Lares," Dr. Jimenez de Wagenheim compares the colonization of
Puerto Rico with that of Spanish America and explores the reasons
why the island's independence movement began decades after Spain's
other colonies in the region had revolted. Through the extensive
use of previously unresearched archive material, she examines the
economic and social backgrounds of the leaders of the rebel
movement, corrects many errors of earlier accounts of the revolt,
and offers new interpretations of its impact on Spanish-Puerto
Rican relations.
Because many of the documents and books about Puerto Rico have been
written by the island's colonizers, only the victors were
celebrated. With this in mind, the author has expressly composed
this book from the viewpoint of the colonized, suppressed, and
exploited. She challenges a previously-held notion that the Tainos
simply gave up at the first sight of the Spaniards, and shows that
they not only fought the intruders, but continued to resist them
for more than sixty years after the battle of Yaguecas. The author
discusses the fate and contributions of Africans who, as slaves or
as free persons, became instrumental in Puerto Rico's social and
economic development and shows how this multi-cultural Caribbean
island brings together the global traditions of the Americas,
Africa, and Europe.
This book interprets Puerto Rico's first and most significant
attempt to end its colonial dependence on Spain. Looking at the
imperial policies and conditions within Puerto Rico that led to the
1868 rebellion known as El Grito de Lares, the author compares the
colonization of Puerto Rico with that of Spanish America and
explores why the island's independence movement began decades after
Spain's other colonies of the region had revolted. Through the
extensive use of previously unresearched archival materials of the
rebel movement, she corrects many errors found in earlier accounts
of the revolt, and offers new interpretations of the movement's
impact on Spanish-Puerto Rican relations.
Because many of the documents and books about Puerto Rico have been
written by the island's colonizers, only the victors were
celebrated. With this in mind, the author has expressly composed
this book from the viewpoint of the colonized, suppressed, and
exploited. She challenges a previously-held notion that the Tainos
simply gave up at the first sight of the Spaniards, and shows that
they not only fought the intruders, but continued to resist them
for more than sixty years after the battle of Yaguecas. The author
discusses the fate and contributions of Africans who, as slaves or
as free persons, became instrumental in Puerto Rico's social and
economic development and shows how this multi-cultural Caribbean
island brings together the global traditions of the Americas,
Africa, and Europe.
From the moment the United States seized Puerto Rico, in 1898, to
the 1950s, the islanders employed various forms of resistance
against American colonial rule. Starting in the 1930s a group of
Nationalists was determined to free Puerto Rico, by armed struggle
if necessary. A Nationalist revolution took full force in 1950. A
commando of men and women attacked the governor's residence and
assaulted police stations throughout the island. Others attempted
to assassinate President Truman In Washington. In 1954, Dolores
Lebron led three male companions in an attack on the U.S. House of
Representatives in which five congressmen were shot for keeping
Puerto Rico in bondage. Massive arrests followed and forty-one
women were detained, two of whom were sentenced to life in prison.
While the male Nationalists have been celebrated as heroes in
Puerto Rico, the women have gone unmentioned This book seeks to
rescue the stories of the women who gave up their freedom in the
quest to liberate their homeland.
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