Federal Party (Puerto Rico)
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The Federal Party (Spanish: Partido Federal) was a short-lived political party in Puerto Rico.
The Federal Party was founded on 1 October 1899Luis Muñoz Rivera and other former members of the Autonomist Party during US military rule of the island following the Spanish–American War. The Federal Party supported greater self-rule for the island. The party was regarding as having among its members the former Spanish colonial elite consisting of large sugar plantation owners and hacendados who had enslaved the Black residents of the Island.[1][2]
byIn February 1904Union of Puerto Rico, or Union Party.
, the party was reconstituted as theReferences
[edit]- ^ Ileana M. Rodriguez-Silva. Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. p. 178.
- ^ Bolivar Pagan. Historia de los Partidos Políticos Puertorriqueños (1898–1956). San Juan, Puerto Rico: Litografía Real Hermanos, Inc. 1959. Tomo I. p. 15.
Further reading
[edit]- José Trías Monge, Puerto Rico: The Trials of the Oldest Colony in the World (Yale University Press, 1997) ISBN 0-300-07618-5