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Sugar, slavery, & freedom in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico / Luis A. Figueroa.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.Description: 290 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0807829498 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780807829493 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 080785610X (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780807856109 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Sugar, slavery, and freedom in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3/62/0972958
LOC classification:
  • HT 1089 F475s 2005
Online resources: View table of contents on the Internet via the World Wide Web.
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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HT 1089 F475s 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000029095

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-276) and index.

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.

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