Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies - Softcover

Cooper, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807848549 ISBN 13: 9780807848548

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000

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In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography--the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. Their contributions take us beyond the familiar portrait of emancipation as the end of an evil system to consider the questions and the struggles that emerged in freedom's wake.
Thomas Holt focuses on emancipation in Jamaica and the contested meaning of citizenship in defining and redefining the concept of freedom; Rebecca Scott investigates the complex struggles and cross-racial alliances that evolved in southern Louisiana and Cuba after the end of slavery; and Frederick Cooper examines the intersection of emancipation and imperialism in French West Africa. In their introduction, the authors address issues of citizenship, labor, and race, in the post-emancipation period and they point the way toward a fuller understanding of the meanings of freedom.

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L'autore:

Frederick Cooper is Charles Gibson Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

A historical exploration of the societal changes and difficulties brought about immediately following the end of slavery both in the Americas and Africa. The authors address issues of citizenship, labor, and race, and point the way toward a fuller understanding of the contested meaning of freedom.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0807848549
• ISBN 13: 9780807848548
• Einband: Copertina flessibile
• Anzahl der Seiten: 212