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.

"…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

• List of IllustrationsTranslator's NoteForeword to the TranslationVanessa K. ValdésPrologue to OriginalAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. San Mateo de Cangrejos's Origins2. The Church of Cangrejos3. Economic Activity in Cangrejos in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries4. Ethnic Origins of San Mateo de Cangrejos5. San Mateo de Cangrejos and Military Defense6. The Suppression of Cangrejos in 18627. The Institutional Order of Cangrejos8. Cangrejos's Residents: As Seen from San Juan9. Santurce's Urban and Demographic DevelopmentConclusionAppendixGlossaryNotesBibliographiesIndex

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.

"…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

• List of IllustrationsTranslator's NoteForeword to the TranslationVanessa K. ValdésPrologue to OriginalAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. San Mateo de Cangrejos's Origins2. The Church of Cangrejos3. Economic Activity in Cangrejos in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries4. Ethnic Origins of San Mateo de Cangrejos5. San Mateo de Cangrejos and Military Defense6. The Suppression of Cangrejos in 18627. The Institutional Order of Cangrejos8. Cangrejos's Residents: As Seen from San Juan9. Santurce's Urban and Demographic DevelopmentConclusionAppendixGlossaryNotesBibliographiesIndex

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.

"…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

• List of IllustrationsTranslator's NoteForeword to the TranslationVanessa K. ValdésPrologue to OriginalAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. San Mateo de Cangrejos's Origins2. The Church of Cangrejos3. Economic Activity in Cangrejos in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries4. Ethnic Origins of San Mateo de Cangrejos5. San Mateo de Cangrejos and Military Defense6. The Suppression of Cangrejos in 18627. The Institutional Order of Cangrejos8. Cangrejos's Residents: As Seen from San Juan9. Santurce's Urban and Demographic DevelopmentConclusionAppendixGlossaryNotesBibliographiesIndex