Degrees of Freedom

Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery

Rebecca J. Scott

  • Gulf South Historical Association Book Award for the best book published on the history and culture of the Gulf South region for the year June 2005-June 2006
  • 2006 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilder Lehrman Center
  • 2006 John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association
  • 2005 Williams Prize in Louisiana History

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

  • Cover: Degrees of Freedom
  • A photo of the author

Photo by Lin Jones

Rebecca J. Scott is Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.