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Author Stark, David Martin, 1965- author.

Title Slave families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico / David M. Stark
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 251 pages)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Catholic Church
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Church records and registers -- Puerto Rico
Cattle trade -- Puerto Rico
Slave trade -- Puerto Rico -- History
Slavery -- Puerto Rico -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General.
Cattle trade
Church records and registers
Slave trade
Slavery
Sklaverei
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813055190
0813055199