Degrees of freedom : Louisiana and Cuba after slavery /

Degrees of freedom : Louisiana and Cuba after slavery / Rebecca J. Scott.

Moving through the cane fields, small farms, and cities of Louisiana and Cuba, Rebecca Scott skilfully observes the people, places, legislation and leadership that shaped how these societies adjusted to the abolition of slavery.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott, Rebecca J. (Rebecca Jarvis), 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Louisiana > History.
Citizenship > Louisiana > History.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Louisiana.
Sugar growing > Social aspects > Louisiana > History.
Black people > Civil rights > Cuba > History.
Citizenship > Cuba > History.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Cuba.
Sugar growing > Social aspects > Cuba > History.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation.
Louisiana > Race relations.
Cuba > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 1906-1919
  • Diverging paths and degrees of freedom.

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