San Mateo de Cangrejos: Historical Notes on a Self-Emancipated Black Community in Puerto Rico

by Gilberto Aponte Torres, Karen Juanita Carrillo (Translator)

Overview

Establishes the central role of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the island's history and the creation of its capital city, San Juan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438491516
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	04/01/2023
Series:	SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures
Pages:	92
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Gilberto Aponte Torres is a researcher and teaches history in Puerto Rico. Karen Juanita Carrillo is the author of several books, including African American-Latino Relations in the 21st Century: When Cultures Collide, as well as the cofounder of AfroPresencia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reporting on Blacks in the Caribbean and throughout North, Central, and South America.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Translator’s Note
Foreword to the Translation
Vanessa K. Valdés
Prologue to Original
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

1. San Mateo de Cangrejos’s Origins

2. The Church of Cangrejos

3. Economic Activity in Cangrejos in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

4. Ethnic Origins of San Mateo de Cangrejos

5. San Mateo de Cangrejos and Military Defense

6. The Suppression of Cangrejos in 1862

7. The Institutional Order of Cangrejos

8. Cangrejos’s Residents: As Seen from San Juan

9. Santurce’s Urban and Demographic Development

Conclusion
Appendix
Glossary
Notes
Bibliographies
Index

Editorial Reviews

"…this book is an important read for those interested in Black Puerto Rican history, Caribbean maroon communities, and Black world-making in the Americas beyond slavery … Carrillo's translation is a valuable intervention in making this title available to English-speaking audiences." — H-Net Reviews (H-Caribbean)

"In translating this volume, Karen Juanita Carrillo makes available for an English-reading audience the history of a geographical site dedicated to Black liberation. It is an act of recovery: we glimpse the lives of Black human beings who endeavored to create and maintain a space released from hemispheric denials of their humanity." — from the foreword by Vanessa K. Valdés

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