Title Slave families and the hato economy in Puerto Rico / David M. Stark.

Publication Info.

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Rocky Hill - Downloadable Materials	EBSCO Ebook	Downloadable
Rocky Hill cardholders click here to access this title from EBSCO

Description	1 online resource
	data file rda
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- An overview of the hato economy -- Demography and slaveholding in the hato economy -- The African slave trade, 1660-1815 -- Until death do us part: marriage among slaves -- A self-sustaining population: the family life of slaves -- Conclusion: the emergence of an Afro-Puerto Rican community.
Summary	This book approaches Caribbean slavery by emphasizing the importance of the hato (herding) economy on Puerto Rico rather than sugar and tobacco production. The author makes use of extensive Catholic parish records.
Note	Print version record.
Language	English.
Subject	Catholic Church. (OCoLC)fst00531720
Genre/Form	History.
Subject	Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
	Slavery -- Puerto Rico -- History.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	Church records and registers. (OCoLC)fst00860914
	Cattle trade. (OCoLC)fst00849732
	Church records and registers -- Puerto Rico.
	Slave trade -- Puerto Rico -- History.
	Cattle trade -- Puerto Rico.
	Puerto Rico. (OCoLC)fst01205432
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	Slave trade. (OCoLC)fst01120405
	Catholic Church.
Local Subject	Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Puerto Rico -- History.
Other Form:	Print version: Stark, David Martin, 1965- Slave families and the hato economy in Puerto Rico. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015] (DLC) 2014035802
ISBN	9780813055190 (electronic bk.)
	0813055199 (electronic bk.)

-->

Permanent Link

Add a Review

Title Slave families and the hato economy in Puerto Rico / David M. Stark.

Copies

Library Links

Search Tools

Language Settings