Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico
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Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico

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Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico

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Scholarship on slavery in the Caribbean frequently emphasizes sugar and tobacco production, but this unique work illustrates the importance of the region's hato economy—a combination of livestock ranching, foodstuff cultivation, and timber harvesting—on the living patterns among slave communities. David Stark makes use of extensive Catholic parish records to provide a comprehensive examination of slavery in Puerto Rico and across the Spanish Caribbean. He reconstructs slave families to examine incidences of marriage, as well as birth and death rates. The result are never-before-analyzed details on how many enslaved Africans came to Puerto Rico, where they came from, and how their populations grew through natural increase. Stark convincingly argues that when animal husbandry drove much of the island's economy, slavery was less harsh than in better-known plantation regimes geared toward crop cultivation. Slaves in the hato economy experienced more favorable conditions for family formation, relatively relaxed work regimes, higher fertility rates, and lower mortality rates.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. An Overview of the Hato Economy
  11. 2. Demography and Slaveholding in the Hato Economy
  12. 3. The African Slave Trade, 1660–1815
  13. 4. Until Death Do Us Part: Marriage among Slaves
  14. 5. A Self-Sustaining Population: The Family Life of Slaves
  15. Conclusion: The Emergence of an Afro-Puerto Rican Community
  16. Appendix 1. Adult and Infant Slaves Baptized in San Juan, 1672–1727
  17. Appendix 2. Adult and Infant Slaves Baptized in San Juan, 1735–1739
  18. Appendix 3. Frequency Distribution of Birth Intervals for Married and Unmarried Enslaved Mothers, Arecibo, 1708–1791
  19. Appendix 4. Frequency Distribution of Birth Intervals for Married and Unmarried Enslaved Mothers, Coamo, 1755–1790
  20. Appendix 5. Frequency Distribution of Birth Intervals for Married and Unmarried Enslaved Mothers, San Juan, 1672–1706
  21. Appendix 6. Frequency Distribution of Birth Intervals for Married and Unmarried Enslaved Mothers, Yauco, 1751–1789
  22. Notes
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index