Sugar, slavery, and freedom in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico

Description:

Focusing on the south-eastern coastal region of Guayama, one of Puerto Rico's three leading centres of sugarcane agriculture, Luis Figueroa examines the transition from slavery and slave labour to freedom and free labour after the 1873 abolition of slavery in colonial Puerto Rico.

subjects: Emancipation,  Freedmen,  History,  Labor supply,  Plantation workers,  Race relations,  Slavery,  Slaves,  Sugarcane industry,  Slavery, united states, history,  Labor supply, puerto rico,  Puerto rico, social conditions,  Puerto rico, history,  United states, race relations,  Freed persons

Places: Guayama Region,  Puerto Rico

Times: 19th century