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This monograph is the English translation of Guillermo Baralt's La Buena Vista: Estancia de frutos menores, fábrica de harinas, y hacienda cafetalera, originally published in Puerto Rico in 1988. The translation was facilitated by the Association of Caribbean Historians after Baralt's book won the Elsa Goveia Prize for best book in Caribbean history in 1992. La Buena Vista is the story of the transformation of a 'truck farm' (estancia) selling fruits for the local market in Ponce in the 1830s into a coffee hacienda producing for the international market by the close of the century. It is also the story of the owners of the hacienda, the Vives family.

Introduction: "Mi patria es la libertad" : context and introduction to Puerto Rico's first feminist treatise / Félix V. Matos Rodríguez -- Woman in the home, in the family, and in government -- Free love by Magdalena Vernet -- Varieties : feminism (from L'Avenir Médical of Paris) -- On honesty -- To my daughter Manuela Ledesma Capetillo -- Your black scarf : to María Luisa Rodríguez -- Special excerpts -- Women during primitive times -- To Jacinto Texidor : memories -- Elisa Tavarez de Storer -- To M. Martínez Rossello, Arecibo -- To Tomás Carrión -- My profession of faith : to Manuel Ugarte, Paris -- Impressions of a trip, July 1909 : remembering the Federación Libre (Free Federation) -- Thinking of you : for M.L., Arecibo.