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2. Degrees of freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after slavery
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Scott,Rebecca Jarvis (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2005
- Published:
- Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 365 p., As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late 19th Century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. 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.
3. A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gaspar,David Barry (Author) and Geggus,David P. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1997
- Published:
- Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 262 p, examines several slave societies in the Greater Caribbean to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of the revolutionary age on the region. Built precariously on the exploitation of slave labor, organized according to the doctrine of racial discrimination, the plantation colonies were particularly vulnerable to the message of the French Revolution, which proved all the more potent because it coincided with the emergence of the antislavery movement in the Atlantic world and interacted with local traditions of resistance among the region's slaves, free coloreds, and white colonists.