Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life HistoryWorker in the Cane is both a profound social document and a moving spiritual testimony. Don Taso portrays his harsh childhood, his courtship and early marriage, his grim struggle to provide for his family. He tells of his radical political beliefs and union activity during the Depression and describes his hardships when he was blacklisted because of his outspoken convictions. Embittered by his continuing poverty and by a serious illness, he undergoes a dramatic cure and becomes converted to a Protestant revivalist sect. In the concluding chapters the author interprets Don Taso's experience in the light of the changing patterns of life in rural Puerto Rico. This is the absorbing story of Don Taso, a Puerto Rican sugar cane worker, and of his family and the village in which he lives. Told largely in his own words, it is a vivid account of the drastic changes taking place in Puerto Rico, as he sees them. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Local Setting | 2 |
Tasos Written Autobiographical Statements | 3 |
Childhood and Adolescence | 4 |
the early years 192739 | 7 |
History within History | 8 |
Epilogue | 9 |
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