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Author | : David M. Stark |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2017-05-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813063183 |
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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 |
ISBN | : |
Download Sugar and Slavery in Puerto Rico Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Luis A. Figueroa |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2006-05-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807876831 |
Download Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Manuel Moreno Fraginals |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Between Slavery and Free Labor Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : David Eltis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1190 |
Release | : 2017-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108232140 |
Download The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804–AD 2016 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : I. Rodríguez-Silva |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2012-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137263229 |
Download Silencing Race Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization of Puerto Rican workers, it explores the 'class-making' of race.
Author | : David Wheat |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2016-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469623803 |
Download Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade. After the catastrophic decline of Amerindian populations on the islands, two major African provenance zones, first Upper Guinea and then Angola, contributed forced migrant populations with distinct experiences to the Caribbean. They played a dynamic role in the social formation of early Spanish colonial society in the fortified port cities of Cartagena de Indias, Havana, Santo Domingo, and Panama City and their semirural hinterlands. David Wheat is the first scholar to establish this early phase of the "Africanization" of the Spanish Caribbean two centuries before the rise of large-scale sugar plantations. With African migrants and their descendants comprising demographic majorities in core areas of Spanish settlement, Luso-Africans, Afro-Iberians, Latinized Africans, and free people of color acted more as colonists or settlers than as plantation slaves. These ethnically mixed and economically diversified societies constituted a region of overlapping Iberian and African worlds, while they made possible Spain's colonization of the Caribbean.
Author | : Kenneth Morgan |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2016-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857728520 |
Download A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the infamous Middle Passage - to work in the colonies of the New World. Perhaps two million Africans died at sea. Why was slavery so widely condoned, during most of this period, by leading lawyers, religious leaders, politicians and philosophers? How was it that the educated classes of the western world were prepared for so long to accept and promote an institution that would later ages be condemned as barbaric? Exploring these and other questions - and the slave experience on the sugar, rice, coffee and cotton plantations - Kenneth Morgan discusses the rise of a distinctively Creole culture; slave revolts, including the successful revolution in Haiti (1791-1804); and the rise of abolitionism, when the ideas of Montesquieu, Wilberforce, Quakers and others led to the slave trade's systemic demise. At a time when the menace of human trafficking is of increasing concern worldwide, this timely book reflects on the deeper motivations of slavery as both ideology and merchant institution.
Author | : Karin Hofmeester |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2017-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110424703 |
Download Handbook Global History of Work Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Coffee from East Africa, wine from California, chocolate from the Ivory Coast - all those every day products are based on labour, often produced under appalling conditions, but always involving the combination of various work processes we are often not aware of. What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? These and many other questions comprise the field of the global history of work – a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook. In 8 thematic chapters, this book discusses these aspects of work in a global and long term perspective, paying attention to several kinds of work. Convict labour, slave and wage labour, labour migration, and workers of the textile industry, but also workers' organisation, strikes, and motivations for work are part of this first handbook of global labour history, written by the most renowned scholars of the profession.
Author | : David Eltis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 777 |
Release | : 2011-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521840686 |
Download The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.