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Sugar, slavery, and freedom in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico

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Focusing on the south-eastern coastal region of Guayama, one of Puerto Rico's three leading centres of sugarcane agriculture, Luis Figueroa examines the transition from slavery and slave labour to freedom and free labour after the 1873 abolition of slavery in …

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Focusing on the south-eastern coastal region of Guayama, one of Puerto Rico's three leading centres of sugarcane agriculture, Luis Figueroa examines the transition from slavery and slave labour to freedom and free labour after the 1873 abolition of slavery in colonial Puerto Rico.

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"Focusing on the south-eastern coastal region of Guayama, one of Puerto Rico's three leading centres of sugarcane agriculture, Luis Figueroa examines the transition from slavery and slave labour to freedom …"

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