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.
The importance of immigrant workers in Cuba's sugar and tropical fruit industries between independence and revolution is examined. The later anti-immigrant sentiment is also examined. SUBJECT(S); Chronicles the economic and political factors responsible for the migration of nearly 200,000 Caribbean immigrants - from Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Barbados, Grenada, Aruba, and Curacao - to Cuba in the 1920's and 1930's
