About this title: As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late 19th 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 labour force. After abolition, on both sides of the Gulf of Mexico, ordinary people - cane cutters and cigar workers, laundresses and labour organisers - forged alliances to protect and expand the freedoms they ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Belknap Pr
Date Published: 2008-04-15
ISBN-13:9780674027596ISBN:0674027590
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard Univers
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780674027596ISBN:0674027590
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
ISBN-13:9780674019324ISBN:0674019326
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780674027596ISBN:0674027590
Description: New. 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 c... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: HARVARD UNIV PR
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780674019324ISBN:0674019326
Description: New. 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 c... read more
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