Abstract
Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico, written by David M. Stark
Highlights
David Stark proposes that during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Puerto Rico and elsewhere in the Spanish Caribbean, slavery played a key role in a “hato economy”—an economy centered on livestock production, in contrast to the Caribbean’s sugar-based plantation regimes
The first chapter presents an overview of the hato economy: large openrange ranches, often owned collectively by families linked by marriage, diversified agriculture, woodcutting, and extensive maritime contraband with the nearby “sugar islands.”
Stark is quite correct in rejecting characterizations of Puerto Rico during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as merely “backward,” instead portraying an active, diverse “hato economy” where slavery played an important role
Summary
Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico. David Stark proposes that during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Puerto Rico and elsewhere in the Spanish Caribbean, slavery played a key role in a “hato economy”—an economy centered on livestock production, in contrast to the Caribbean’s sugar-based plantation regimes.
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