Slave Families And The Hato Economy In Puerto Rico
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Author | : David M. Stark |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2017-05-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813063183 |
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.
Author | : Francisco Antonio Scarano |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Luis A. Figueroa |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2006-05-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807876836 |
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 Guayama, 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.
Author | : Guillermo A. Baralt |
Publisher | : Markus Wiener Pub |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781558764620 |
From the emergence of the first sugar plantations up until 1873, when slavery was abolished, the wealth amassed by many landowners in Puerto Rico derived mainly from the exploitation of slaves. But slavery generated its antithesis - disobedience, uprisings and flights. This book documents these expressions of collective resistance.
Author | : David Martin Stark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Demography |
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Author | : Mariano Negrón-Portillo |
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Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Enslaved persons |
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Author | : Luis Antonio Figueroa |
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Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Enslaved persons |
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Author | : Francisco Antonio Scarano |
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Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1981 |
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Author | : David Eltis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1190 |
Release | : 2017-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108232140 |
Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time - from ancient times to the present - and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas and societies. This volume covers the period from the independence of Haiti to modern perceptions of slavery by assembling twenty-eight original essays, each written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. Issues discussed include the sources of slaves, the slave trade, the social and economic functioning of slave societies, the responses of slaves to enslavement, efforts to abolish slavery continuing to the present day, the flow of contract labor and other forms of labor control in the aftermath of abolition, and the various forms of coerced labor that emerged in the twentieth century under totalitarian regimes and colonialism.
Author | : Lissette Acosta Corniel |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2024-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438497946 |
This groundbreaking volume addresses the enslavement and experiences of Black Africans in Spain and the Spanish Caribbean, particularly La Española (or Hispaniola) and Puerto Rico, two of the earliest colonies. Spanning nearly four hundred years and rooted in extensive archival research, Transatlantic Bondage sheds light on a number of relatively underexamined topics in these locales, including the development and application of slavery laws, disobedience and its consequences, migration, gender, family, lifestyle, and community building among the free Black population and white allies. In bringing together new and recent work by leading scholars, including two essays translated into English here for the first time, the book is also a call for further study of slavery in the Spanish Caribbean and its impact on the region.