Puerto Rican Needle Workers and Colonial Migrations: Deindustrialization as Pathways Lost
Colonialism, WomenThe dominant narrative of U.S. deindustrialization opens with the Northeast as the definitive starting point for industry followed by a direct linear relocation to the South and then the Global South. I
Hacienda Mercedita
Sugar CaneHacienda Mercedita was a 300-acre (120 ha) sugarcane plantation in Ponce, Puerto Rico, founded in 1861, by Juan Serrallés Colón.
BRIEF HISTORY OF ISLA DE VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO
ViequesStudies show that Vieques was first inhabited by Native Americans who came from South America about 1500 years before Christopher Columbus set foot in Puerto Rico in 1493.
Central Sugar Mills
Sugar CaneThe central sugar mill concept began in Puerto Rico with the establishment of Central San Vicente in 1873.
Give Them Christ: Native Agency in the Evangelization of Puerto Rico, 1900 to 1917
Religion / SpiritualityThe scholarship on the history of Protestant missions to Puerto Rico after the Spanish American War of 1898 emphasizes the Americanizing tendencies of the missionaries in the construction of the new Puerto Rican.
The Culture History of a Puerto Rican Sugar Cane Plantation 1876-1949
Sugar CaneThe present article is an attempt to combine the analysis of historical documents with the use of data from aged informants for purposes of historical reconstruction.
Espiritismo:The Flywheel of the Puerto Rican Spiritual Traditions
Religion / Spirituality
by Edil Torres Rivera, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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Espiritismo (spiritism) is a wide-spread religious practice among Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans in the United States. Espiritismo has been found…
Bound to History: Leoncia Lasalle’s Slave Narrative from Moca, Puerto Rico, 1945
Slavery, Stories/Narratives, Women
by Ellen Fernandez-Sacco, Independent Scholar, Tampa, FL 33618, USA
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The only slave narrative from Puerto Rico is included in Luis Diaz Soler’s Historia de la esclavitud negra en…