Slave Revolts in Puerto Rico

Slave Conspiracies and Unrest in Puerto Rico, 1795-1873

Guillermo A Baralt author Christine R Ayorinde translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Markus Wiener Publishing Inc

Published:1st Sep '07

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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, conspiracies, uprisings, and flight. ""Slave Revolts in Puerto Rico"" is a richly documented volume dealing with these expressions of collective resistance. The image of the docile and submissive slave presented by the prevailing historiography until very recently is no longer valid. Documents uncovered by Guillermo A. Baralt provide evidence of over forty uprising attempts, which are detailed in this fascinating book.

Baralt has relied extensively on Puerto Rican archives.... Many of the descriptions of various rebellions are drawn entirely from archival material and hence constitute new data on nineteenth-century Puerto Rican slavery. Hispanic American Historical Review

ISBN: 9781558764620

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 356g

190 pages