- 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


Degrees of Freedom
Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery
Product Details
PAPERBACK
$30.00 • £24.95 • €27.00
ISBN 9780674027596
Publication Date: 04/30/2008
Awards & Accolades
- 2005–2006 Gulf South Historical Association Book Award
- 2005 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize, Historic New Orleans Collection and Louisiana Historical Association