Decir “no” también es un acto de amor propio

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Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico Categoría_Memorias Decir “no” también es unThe contributions of the black population to the history and economic development of Puerto Rico have long been distorted and underplayed, Luis A. Figueroa contends. Focusing on the southeastern coastal region of Guayama, one of Puerto Rico's three leading centers of sugarcane agriculture, Figueroa examines the transition from slavery and slave labor to freedom and free labor after the 1873 abolition of slavery in colonial Puerto Rico. He corrects