The Transition to Free Labour in Puerto Rico

Class, Race and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century Colony

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ID3585487
AuthorsDiego Ayala‐mccormick (0000-0001-8778-8440, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume55
Issue2
Pages191-214
Publication date2023-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x23000251
OpenAlexW4327731784
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

This article analyses the abolition of slavery and the transition to free labour in late nineteenth-century Puerto Rico, seeking to understand the terms and timing of Puerto Rican abolition and the nature of society in its wake. Especially important in Puerto Rico, it argues, was the intertwined nature of slavery and other forms of forced labour as well as the predominance of foreign merchants and planters in the island's economy, which created multi-class alliances between working-class Puerto Ricans and creole elites. These class dynamics interacted with events in the metropole to influence the terms of labour on the island

Class (philosophy) · Creole language · Economic history · Ethnology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Puerto rican · Race (biology) · Sociology · Transition (genetics) · Working class · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law

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