Degrees of freedom : Louisiana and Cuba after slavery

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

As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. This title compares and contrasts these two societies in which slavery was destroyed by war, and citizenship was redefined through social and political upheava...

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Main Author: Scott, Rebecca J. (Rebecca Jarvis), 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Series:The 1984 Reith lectures ; 1984
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.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
African Americans > Civil rights
Black people > Civil rights
Citizenship
Race relations
Enslaved persons > Emancipation
Ethnische Beziehungen
Zuckerrohranbau
Sklaverei
Abschaffung
Bürgerrecht
Louisiana > Race relations.
Cuba > Race relations.
Cuba
Louisiana
Schwärze
Kuba.
History
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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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