Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery

by Rebecca J. Scott

Book Overview

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 upheaval. Both Louisiana and Cuba were rich in sugar plantations that depended on an enslaved labor force. After abolition, on both sides of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674027590
• ISBN13: 9780674027596
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.6"