Degrees of Freedom Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery

Name: Degrees of Freedom Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery
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ISBN: 9780674027596

ISBN-10: 0674027590

ISBN-13: 9780674027596

Edition: 2005

Authors: Rebecca J. Scott

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As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Degrees of Freedom compares and contrasts these two societies in which slavery was destroyed by war, and citizenship was redefined through social and political upheaval. Both Louisiana and Cuba were rich in sugar plantations that depended on an enslaved labor force. After abolition, on both sides of the Gulf of Mexico, ordinary people--cane cutters and cigar workers, laundresses and labor organizers--forged alliances to protect and expand the freedoms they had won. But by the beginning of the twentieth century, Louisiana and Cuba diverged sharply in…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Rebecca J. Scott is Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.



Introduction



Two Worlds of Cane, 1803-1860



Building Citizenship: Louisiana, 1862-1873



Crisis and Voice: Southern Louisiana, 1874-1896



Finding the Spaces of Freedom: Central Cuba, 1868-1895



A Wartime Cross-Racial Alliance: Cuba, 1895-1898



Democracy and Antidemocracy: The Claims of Citizens, 1898-1900



The Right to Have Rights, 1901-1905



The Search for Property and Standing: Cuba, 1906-1914



Diverging Paths and Degrees of Freedom


Appendix: Tables Abbreviations


Notes


Select Bibliography of Primary Sources


Illustration and Map Credits


Acknowledgments


Index