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Barrio Capitanejo (Ponce)

Published in 31 July, 2021 by Pepe Carpintero

Capitanejo once contained two sugar mills and plantations that relied on the coerced labor of enslaved Africans and their descendants: Hacienda Fortuna (later the site of Central Fortuna, whose ruins still exist there) and Cintrona Segunda (once owned by the Archeval brothers) which by the mid-19th century became the most productive sugar mill in the region.

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