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Degrees of Freedom

Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery

Rebecca J. Scott

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ISBN 9780674027596

Publication Date: 04/30/2008

384 pages

6 x 9 inches

12 halftones, 6 maps

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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

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