on Puerto Rico's southeastern coastal region of Guayama, a leading center of sugar cane agriculture, Figueroa examines the transition from slave labor to free labor after the 1873 abolition of slavery in colonial Puerto Rico. Arguing that the black population and their contributions to the economic health of Puerto Rico have been distorted and underplayed, he corrects misconceptions about what ex-slaves did after emancipation and debunks standing myths about race…
Author: Luis A. Figueroa · Original publisher: University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC, 2005), co-published with Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico
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