List of Illustrations
Translator's Note
Foreword to the Translation
Vanessa K. Valdés
Prologue to Original
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. San Mateo de Cangrejos's Origins
2. The Church of Cangrejos
3. Economic Activity in Cangrejos in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
4. Ethnic Origins of San Mateo de Cangrejos
5. San Mateo de Cangrejos and Military Defense
6. The Suppression of Cangrejos in 1862
7. The Institutional Order of Cangrejos
8. Cangrejos's Residents: As Seen from San Juan
9. Santurce's Urban and Demographic Development
Conclusion
Appendix
Glossary
Notes
Bibliographies
Index

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.