Slave Revolts in Puerto Rico
Baralt, Guillermo A![Slave Revolts in Puerto Rico](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/231/23112696/CHSBZCOP0323112696.jpg)
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 pre...