[PDF.61hg] Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery

Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery

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 | #1117471 in Books |  Belknap Press |  2008-04-30 |  2008-03-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.60 x1.00 x5.92l,1.16 | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Rebecca Scott is a Genius!|By RDD|In Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery, Rebecca Scott writes that at the most basic level, violence played a key role in the transition from slavery to freedom in Louisiana through the Civil War. While Louisiana was under Union occupation, the presence of black soldiers played a key role in encouraging freedpeople to agitate fo|From Publishers Weekly|Tracing the parallel histories of post-slavery Louisiana and Cuba, Scott, a University of Michigan professor of history and law, uses court cases, activist profiles and heart-pounding runaway narratives to slowly draw the reader into the l

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 the Gulf of Mexico, ordina...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery   |  Rebecca J. Scott. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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