Degrees of freedom : Louisiana and Cuba after slavery /

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Scott, Rebecca J. (Rebecca Jarvis), 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
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.
Noirs américains > Droits > Louisiane > Histoire.
Citoyenneté > Louisiane > Histoire.
Personnes noires > Droits > Cuba > Histoire.
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Cuba.
Citoyenneté > Cuba > Histoire.
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Louisiane.
Sucre > Production > Aspect social > Cuba > Histoire.
Sucre > Production > Aspect social > Louisiane > Histoire.
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.
Louisiane > Relations raciales.
Cuba > Relations raciales.
Cuba.
Louisiana.
Schwarze.
Kuba.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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