TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott,Rebecca J.
TI  - Degrees of freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after slavery 
T2  - The 1984 Reith lectures
SN  - 9780674043398
AV  - E185.93.L6 S29 2005eb
U1  - 323.1196/07291/09034 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - History
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Emancipation
KW  - Sugar growing
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Black people
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Droits
KW  - Louisiane
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Citoyenneté
KW  - Noirs
KW  - Esclaves
KW  - Affranchissement
KW  - Sucre
KW  - Production
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Freedom & Security
KW  - Civil Rights
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Caribbean & West Indies
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Ethnische Beziehungen
KW  - gnd
KW  - Zuckerrohranbau
KW  - Sklaverei
KW  - Abschaffung
KW  - Bürgerrecht
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - Schwarze
KW  - swd
KW  - Kuba
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-346) and index; Two worlds of cane : 1803-1860 -- Building citizenship : Louisiana, 1862-1873 -- Crisis and voice : southern Louisiana, 1874-1896 -- Finding the spaces of freedom : central Cuba, 1868-1895 -- A wartime cross-racial alliance : Cuba, 1895-1898 -- Democracy and antidemocracy : the claims of citizens, 1898-1900 -- The right to have rights : 1901-1905 -- The search for property and standing : Cuba 1906-1919 -- Diverging paths and degrees of freedom
N2  - As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. This title compares and contrasts these two societies in which slavery was destroyed by war, and citizenship was redefined through social and political upheaval; 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, ordinary people-cane cutters and cigar workers, laundresses and labor organizers-forged alliances to protect and expand the freedoms they had won. But by the beginning of the twentieth century, Louisiana and Cuba diverged sharply in the meanings attributed to race and color in public life, and in the boundaries placed on citizenship. Louisiana had taken the path of disenfranchisement and state-mandated racial segregation; Cuba had enacted universal manhood suffrage and had seen the emergence of a transracial conception of the nation. What might explain these differences? Moving through the cane fields, small farms, and cities of Louisiana and Cuba, Rebecca Scott skillfully observes the people, places, legislation, and leadership that shaped how these societies adjusted to the abolition of slavery. The two distinctive worlds also come together, as Cuban exiles take refuge in New Orleans in the 1880s, and black soldiers from Louisiana garrison small towns in eastern Cuba during the 1899 U.S. military occupation. Crafting her narrative from the words and deeds of the actors themselves, Scott brings to life the historical drama of race and citizenship in postemancipation societies
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