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Degrees of Freedom

Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery

Author: Rebecca J. Scott

Table of Contents

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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Degrees of Freedom at Harvard University Press