Slaves and Slavery in the 19th Century Puerto Rican Literature.

This paper will focus on the literary treatments of slaves and slavery in Puerto Rican literature in the 19th century. It argues that such treatments, including those in the Puerto Rican periodicals and other 19th century literary publications on the island, offer a much more complex understanding of slavery and human oppression in general than we can usually find in sociological or even psychological studies of these social phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]