Negras: Stories of Puerto Rican Slave Women

Black women took part in thousands of individual and group escapes during slavery and post-slavery on this side of the globe. They actively played central roles in actual insurrections and revolts, in a pure manifestation of their rebelliousness. . Tired as they were of slavery and other constraints to freedom, they transgressed, infringed upon, and broke with social order. -Gabriela Sonya, October 1998.