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...David M. Stark Abstract This study examines godparent selection patterns by the parents of 632 slaves baptized in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, from 1735 to 1772. The article broadens our understanding of baptismal sponsorship by using family reconstitution to re-create demographic patterns of behavior...

... in the impact of export agriculture than “classical” dependency theory would suggest. Bergad examines the development of coffee cultivation in three Puerto Rican municipios, with his best evidence coming from the municipio of Lares, located in the western highlands south of Arecibo. The story begins...

... on an impressive foundation of quantitative evidence, collected from the marital, baptismal, and burial records of 21 parochial archives across Puerto Rico. He concentrates on the northwestern province of Arecibo, where the hato economy was most entrenched and where records are most complete, and contextualizes...

...). This was originally published in the Boletín Eclesiástico (San Juan), Aug. 31, 1899. Perpiña y Páhernat personally presented a copy of this essav to the U.S. military commander, General Davis. 8 One particular incident is colorfully reported in Cayetano Coll y Toste, “La inundación del valle de Arecibo...

... created 6 police districts (San Juan, Juana Díaz, Aguadilla, Arecibo, Humacao, and Cayey) in charge of 67 posts throughout the Puerto Rican archipelago. 13 The law that created the insular police also established that “the wardens of [the] penitentiary and jails ceased to be members of the insular...

... as well, such as Guayanilla and Arecibo. 59 In June 1873, El Derecho published an account of the festivities in honor of Governor Rafael Primo de Rivera’s visit to Ponce, in which the editors underscored the active participation of former masters and slaves who together cheered the political...

... A. Scarano, “Inmigración V estructura de clases: los hacendados de Ponce, 1815-1845”; and Astrid Cubano Iguina “Economía y sociedad en Arecibo en el siglo XIX: los grandes productores y la inmigración de comerciantes,” both in Inmigración y clases sociales en el Puerto Rico del siglo XIX ed. Francisco...