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Degrees of Freedom : Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery by Rebecca J. Scott, Rebecca J. Scott is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. <i>Degrees of Freedom</i> 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
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- Author
- Rebecca J. Scott, Rebecca J. Scott
- Publisher
- Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674019324
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Science, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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