The importance of non-slave coerced White labor during the regime of slavery was such that anthropologist Sidney Mintz, who studied slavery, the transition to free labor, and twentieth-century plantation life in various Caribbean societies, referred to Puerto Ricos nineteenth-century sugar estates not as slave plantations but as slave-and- agregado plantations.Footnote 50 In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, Puerto Rican peasants experienced a deterioration of the usufruct rights they had enjoyed as agregados on the farms of titled landowners, and they gradually became proletarianized as coffee exports exploded and reached a peak in the year 1896.Footnote 51 The emerging rural working class was thus composed of peasants of all races who were subjected to various forms of extra-economic coercion, and to these were added the libertos , freed slaves thrown into an emerging market for labor power after emancipation was proclaimed by the Spanish colonial state in 18731876.Footnote 52 The existence of generalized labor coercion had two effects: a compression of inequality downward among all rural workersBlack, White, and Mulattoand the emergence of a stratum of skilled Black workers who were well-positioned to benefit from the boom in the sugar industry in the twentieth centurys early decades
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