About the Author

Guillermo A. Baralt, University of Puerto Rico, is author of Buena Vista: Life and Work on a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904. Christine Ayorinde's translations from Spanish include Afro-Cuban Religions by Miguel Barnet (Markus Wiener, 2001) and Afro-Cuban Myths by Romulo Lachatanere (Markus Wiener, 2005).

Reviews

Baralt has relied extensively on Puerto Rican archives.... Many of the descriptions of various rebellions are drawn entirely from archival material and hence constitute new data on nineteenth-century Puerto Rican slavery. Hispanic American Historical Review