The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation Quotes

“It never had been a colony, there was no creole class, and the only indigenous population—the "jíbaros," the mixed descendants of Indians, negroes, and Spaniards—were too poor, too illiterate, too ignorant of everything concerning the outside world to look with anything but suspicion upon the invitations of the insurgents of Colombia and Venezuela to join them or imitate their example.”
― Rudolph Adams Van Middeldyk, The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation