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Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Belknap Press (April 30, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0674027590
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674027596
  • Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 1 x 8.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsVery Good
By R. Albin TOP 1000 REVIEWER on July 19, 2008
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First, disclosure of potential conflict of interest. The author and I are both faculty at the University of Michigan, though not in the same department. This is a very good comparative study of the aftermath of emancipation in Louisiana and Cuba. In Louisiana, emancipation was followed by the burst of African-American political participation during the Reconstruction period, then the gradual extinction of African-American civil rights that was the imposition of Jim Crow. In Cuba, on the other hand, emancipation was bound up with the cause of Cuban independence and the attainment of nationhood was accompanied by considerable political participation on the part of Afro-Cubans, and this became an enduring feature of Cuban life.
In important respects, Louisiana and Cuba had important common features. Both were slaveholding societies with sugar plantation economies. Antebellum Louisiana, particularly the sugar producing parishes (counties) that are the focus of Scott's narrative, was a highly stratified 'slave' society with relatively small numbers of white owners lording over a large group of slave workers. Free blacks, and whites engaged in plantation labor were relatively sparse. The most important free black community in Louisiana was the urbanized and creolized community of New Orleans. Pre-independence Cuba, in contrast, was more diverse in some respects. There were substantial numbers of free Afro-Cubans, many whites who performed plantation labor, and other forms of ethnic diversity such as significant numbers of Chinese indentured laborers.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe best kind of history
By Naseberry on April 29, 2013
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The subject is of interest to me, combining as it does both historical and legal issues in a nexus of great immediacy, i.e. the extent to which human beings could dispose of themselves and their bodies or be considered chattel. There was a wealth of information which was new to me. This is a book of discovery for the reader, the result of excellent research, and the text itself is lively and engaging, making it an extremely interesting book to read. A work of scholarship which can be easily read by the non-specialist is always a winner.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat Transnational Study
By Sid Dowell on March 15, 2013
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Scott lays out a well organized argument and supports her thesis with substantial documentation. Perhaps a bit of overkill on the documentation and stories in some areas but overall she makes a strong argument and provides illuminating insights to a transnational/comparative history topic that reveals a great deal about the dichotomy in attitudes regarding slavery in post Civil War American and in Cuba.
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3.0 out of 5 starsSubstance excellent but print too light.
By Ellen Kolegar on February 8, 2014
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Very light printing. Made it a little hard to read. I had to be sure I used my reading glasses.
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1.0 out of 5 starsI am pretty upset.
By Ads on January 27, 2015
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There are no page numbers? This is completely worthless for a student who needs to be able to analyze the work in depth and discuss it critically in class. I am pretty upset.
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