Reconstruction in the Cane Fields : From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862--1880 /

In Reconstruction in the Cane Fields, John C. Rodrigue examines emancipation and the difficult transition from slavery to free labor in one enclave of the South -- the cane sugar region of southern Louisiana. In contrast to the various forms of sharecropping and tenancy that replaced slavery in the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rodrigue, John C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Landarbeiter
Zuckerrohrplantage
Sugarcane industry.
Sugar workers.
Slaves > Emancipation.
Slavery.
Plantation workers.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Knowledge Capital.
Canne à sucre > Industrie > Louisiane > Histoire.
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Louisiane > Histoire.
Travailleurs des plantations > Louisiane > Histoire.
Sugarcane industry > Louisiana > History.
Slaves > Emancipation > Louisiana > History.
Slavery > Louisiana > History.
Plantation workers > Louisiana > History.
Sugar workers > Louisiana > History.
Louisiana
Louisiana.
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Louisiana Sugar--American Slavery
  • The Sweetness of Freedom
  • Land and Labor after the War
  • Sugar and Suffrage
  • Persistence and Progress
  • "Of a Move About Disposition"
  • The Rewards of Wage Labor
  • Ambiguities of Redemption
  • Epilogue: The Sugar War of 1887.

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