Sugar Slavery And Freedom In Nineteenth Century Puerto Rico

Author : Luis A. Figueroa
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0807876836

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Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico by Luis A. Figueroa Pdf

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 : Luis Antonio Figueroa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN : WISC:89095899662

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Facing Freedom by Luis Antonio Figueroa Pdf

Author : Francisco Antonio Scarano
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037625808

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Sugar and Slavery in Puerto Rico by Francisco Antonio Scarano Pdf

Author : Javier Lavina,Michael Zeuske
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643903679

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The Second Slavery by Javier Lavina,Michael Zeuske Pdf

"Slavery throughout the capitalist world-economy expands. The old zones in one way or another reach their limits and the new zones break through: to become part of the new division of labor (in the 19th century). In that sense The Second Slavery would encompass both decline and renewal of slaveries. I never intended the idea to apply just to Cuba, Brazil, and the cotton South as some people seem to take it. For me it is a concept of world economy and Cuba, Brazil, and the South are the obvious examples of those zones that break through. They permit us to think about slavery in a more dynamic way, but there is much more work to be done. From this perspective I would be more inclined to include Reunion, Mauritius and some parts of India, Ceylon and Java as well as British Guiana, than the older French and British Caribbean islands." -- contributor Dale Tomich, Binghamton U., New York *** The Second Slavery includes the following essays: African Slaves and the Atlantic: A Cultural Overview * The End of the British Atlantic Slave Trade or the Beginning of the Big Slave Robbery, 1808-1850 * Peasant or Proletarian: Emancipation and the Struggle for Freedom in British Guiana in the Shadow of the Second Slavery * The End of the "Second Slavery" in the Confederate South and the "Great Brigandage" in Southern Italy: A Comparative Study * Puerto Rico: "Atlantizacion" and Culture during the "Segunda Esclavitud" * The Second Slavery: Modernity, Mobility, and Identity of Captives in Nineteenth-Century Cuba and the Atlantic World * Commodity Frontiers, Conjuncture and Crisis: The Remaking of the Caribbean Sugar Industry, 1783-1866 * The Aftermath of Abolition: Distortions of the Historical Record in Machado de Assis' Counselor Aires' Memorial * The Second Slavery: Modernity in the 19th-Century South and the Atlantic World. (Series: Slavery and Postemancipation / Sklaverei und Postemanzipation / Esclavitud y Postemancipacion - Vol. 6)

Author : Manuel Moreno Fraginals,Frank Moya Pons,Stanley L. Engerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037830564

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Between Slavery and Free Labor by Manuel Moreno Fraginals,Frank Moya Pons,Stanley L. Engerman Pdf

Author : Brian L. Moore,B. W. Higman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9766401373

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Slavery, Freedom and Gender by Brian L. Moore,B. W. Higman Pdf

A collection of lectures delivered between 1987 and 1998. The book is divided into two sections: slavery and freedom, which features critical research on slavery and post-emancipation society, and gender.

Author : Dale W. Tomich
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438459172

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Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition by Dale W. Tomich Pdf

Traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in nineteenth-century Martinique. A classic text long out of print, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in Martinique during the period immediately preceding slave emancipation in 1848. Interpreting these events against the broader background of the world-economy, Dale W. Tomich analyzes the importance of topics such as British hegemony in the nineteenth century, related developments of the French economy, and competition from European beet sugar producers. He shows how slaves’ adaptation—and resistance—to changing working conditions transformed the plantation labor regime and the very character of slavery itself. Based on archival sources in France and Martinique, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar offers a vivid reconstruction of the complex and contradictory interrelations among the world market, the material processes of sugar production, and the social relations of slavery. In this second edition, Tomich includes a new introduction in which he offers an explicit discussion of the methodological and theoretical issues entailed in developing and extending the world-systems perspective and clarifies the importance of the approach for the study of particular histories.

Author : Adélékè Adéèkó
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253111420

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The Slave's Rebellion by Adélékè Adéèkó Pdf

Episodes of slave rebellions such as Nat Turner's are central to speculations on the trajectory of black history and the goal of black spiritual struggles. Using fiction, history, and oral poetry drawn from the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa, this book analyzes how writers reinterpret episodes of historical slave rebellion to conceptualize their understanding of an ideal "master-less" future. The texts range from Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave and Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of this World to Yoruba praise poetry and novels by Nigerian writers Adebayo Faleti and Akinwumi Isola. Each text reflects different "national" attitudes toward the historicity of slave rebellions that shape the ways the texts are read. This is an absorbing book about the grip of slavery and rebellion on modern black thought.

Author : George S. Ulibarri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Puerto Rico
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173027999591

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Nineteenth-century Puerto Rican Immigration and Slave Data by George S. Ulibarri Pdf

Author : Verene Shepherd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0813025524

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Slavery Without Sugar by Verene Shepherd Pdf

"Urgently needed, since an examination of the sugar plantation complex alone does not effectively and conclusively provide the entire picture, or detail the factors leading to the profitability of the Caribbean economy. . . . An excellent, well-thought-out compilation."--Selwyn H.H. Carrington, Howard University The plantation economy model--at its core the sugar plantation complex that structured Caribbean society along a rigid enslaver-enslaved line--has so pervaded Caribbean historiography that it has often masked the social and economic diversification that existed in the age of sugar. Equally veiled are the gender, class, and ethnic heterogeneity of the slave-holding class and the variation in the occupations and lived experience of the enslaved population. This volume seeks to reopen discourse on Caribbean slave society by showing how diverse the economy and society really were and how varied were the experiences of the enslaved. 1. Indigo and Slavery in Saint Domingue, by David Geggus 2. Timber Extraction and the Shaping of the Culture of Enslaved Peoples in Belize, by O. Nigel Bolland 3. The Internal Economy of Jamaican Pens, 1760-1890, by B. W. Higman 4. Nonsugar Proprietors in a Sugar-Plantation Society, by Verene A. Shepherd and Kathleen E. A. Monteith 5. Coffee and the "Poorer Sort of People" in Jamaica during the Period of African Enslavement, by S. D. Smith 6. Slavery and Cotton Culture in the Bahamas, by Gail Saunders 7. State Enslavement in Colonial Havana, 1763-90, by Evelyn Powell Jennings 8. The Urban Context of the Life of the Enslaved: Views from Bridgetown, Barbados, in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, by Pedro L. V. Welch 9. Freedom without Liberty: Free Blacks in Barbados, by Hilary McD. Beckles 10. The Free Colored Population in Cuba during the Nineteenth Century, by Franklin W. Knight 11. "Quien Trabajara?": Domestic Workers, Urban Enslaved Workers, and the Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico, by Felix Matos Rodríguez Verene A. Shepherd is associate professor of history at the University of the West Indies, Mona.

Author : Arthur L. Stinchcombe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400822003

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Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment by Arthur L. Stinchcombe Pdf

Plantations, especially sugar plantations, created slave societies and a racism persisting well into post-slavery periods: so runs a familiar argument that has been used to explain the sweep of Caribbean history. Here one of the most eminent scholars of modern social theory applies this assertion to a comparative study of most Caribbean islands from the time of the American Revolution to the Spanish American War. Arthur Stinchcombe uses insights from his own much admired Economic Sociology to show why sugar planters needed the help of repressive governments for recruiting disciplined labor. Demonstrating that island-to-island variations on this theme were a function of geography, local political economy, and relation to outside powers, he scrutinizes Caribbean slavery and Caribbean emancipation movements in a world-historical context. Throughout the book, Stinchcombe aims to develop a sociology of freedom that explains a number of complex phenomena, such as how liberty for some individuals may restrict the liberty of others. Thus, the autonomous governments of colonies often produced more oppressive conditions for slaves than did so-called arbitrary governments, which had the power to restrict the whims of the planters. Even after emancipation, freedom was not a clear-cut matter of achieving the ideals of the Enlightenment. Indeed, it was often a route to a social control more efficient than slavery, providing greater flexibility for the planter class and posing less risk of violent rebellion.

Author : Francisco Antonio Scarano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:836793003

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Sugar and Slavery in Puerto Rico by Francisco Antonio Scarano Pdf

Author : Dale W. Tomich
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438477855

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Atlantic Transformations by Dale W. Tomich Pdf

Calls attention to the political, economic, and cultural interdependence and interaction of global and local forces shaping the Atlantic world of the nineteenth century. This book presents a new approach to nineteenth-century Atlantic history by extending the analytical perspective of the second slavery to questions of empire, colonialism, and slavery. With a focus on Latin America, Brazil, the Spanish Caribbean, and the United States, international scholars examine relations among empires, between empires and colonies, and within colonies as parts of processes of global economic and political restructuring. By treating metropolis-colony relations within the framework of the modern world-economy, the contributors call attention to the political, economic, and cultural interdependence and interaction of global and local forces shaping the Atlantic world. They reinterpret as specific local responses to global processes the conflicts between empires, within imperial relations, the formation of national states, the creation of new zones of agricultural production and the decline of old ones, and the emergence of liberal ideologies and institutions.

Author : Aline Helg
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469649641

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Slave No More by Aline Helg Pdf

Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early colonization to the American and Haitian revolutions, Spanish American independence, and abolition in the British Caribbean. Helg not only underscores the agency of those who managed to become "free people of color" before abolitionism took hold but also assesses in detail the specific strategies they created and utilized. While recognizing the powerful forces supporting slavery, Helg articulates four primary liberation strategies: flight and marronage; manumission by legal document; military service, for men, in exchange for promised emancipation; and revolt—along with a willingness to exploit any weakness in the domination system. Helg looks at such actions at both individual and community levels and in the context of national and international political movements. Bringing together the broad currents of liberal abolitionism with an original analysis of forms of manumission and marronage, Slave No More deepens our understanding of how enslaved men, women, and even children contributed to the slow demise of slavery.

Author : Franklin W. Knight
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000239762

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Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century by Franklin W. Knight Pdf