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In Puerto Rico, Women Won the Vote in a Bittersweet Game of Colonial Politics

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Puertorriqueñas’ fight for suffrage shaped by class, colonialism and racism—but even today, island residents cannot vote for president

Whose Legacy?: Voicing Women’s Rights from the 1870s to the 1930s

In 1990 I interviewed Puerto Rican women--feminist critics, sociologists, and writers--for a project on Caribbean women's discourse.

Central Sugar Mills

The 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

The 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

The present article is an attempt to combine the analysis of historical documents with the use of data from aged informants for purposes of historical reconstruction.

Bound to History: Leoncia Lasalle’s Slave Narrative from Moca, Puerto Rico, 1945

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by Ellen Fernandez-Sacco, Independent Scholar, Tampa, FL 33618, USA Download PDF Link to source Abstract The only slave narrative from Puerto Rico is included in Luis Diaz Soler’s Historia de la esclavitud negra en…