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. Degrees of Freedom compares and contrasts these two societies in which slavery was destroyed by war, and citizenship was redefined through social and political...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The 1984 Reith lectures ;
1984 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (379 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1. Two Worlds of Cane. 1803–1860
- 2. Building Citizenship. Louisiana, 1862–1873
- 3. Crisis and Voice. Southern Louisiana, 1874–1896
- 4. Finding the Spaces of Freedom. Central Cuba, 1868–1895
- 5. A Wartime Cross-Racial Alliance. Cuba, 1895–1898
- 6. Democracy and Antidemocracy. The Claims of Citizens, 1898–1900
- 7. The Right to Have Rights. 1901–1905
- 8. The Search for Property and Standing. Cuba, 1906–1914
- 9. Diverging Paths and Degrees of Freedom
- Appendix: Tables
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Select Bibliography of Primary Sources
- Illustration and Map Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Index