Societies After Slavery

A Select Annotated Bibliography of Printed Sources on Cuba, Brazil, British Colonial Africa, South A

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

Av Rebecca J. Scott, Thomas C. Holt, Frederick Cooper, Aims McGuinness, Thomas Holt, Rebecca J Scott, Aims Mcguinness

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One of the massive transformations that took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the movement of millions of people from the status of slaves to that of legally free men, women, and children. Societies after Slavery provides thousands of entries and rich scholarly annotations, making it the definitive resource for scholars and students engaged in research on postemancipation societies in the Americas and Africa.

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Utgivningsdatum2004-05-23
Mått156 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt617 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePitt Latin American Series
Antal sidor432
FörlagUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN9780822958482

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Rebecca J. Scott is the Frederick Huetwell Professor of History and visiting professor of law at the University of Michigan. Thomas C. Holt is the James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago. Frederick Cooper is professor of history at New York University. Aims McGuinness is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Cooper, Holt, and Scott are coauthors of Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies.

For decades phenomenal attention historians have given to all aspects of New World slavery has not been matched by equivalent knowledge of the postemancipation worlds. Historians of North America especially need to learn more about the consequences of slave emancipation in Africa and Latin America. The bibliography compiled by Rebecca Scott, Thomas Holt, Frederick Cooper, and Aims McGuinness will therefore become a crucial and standard source for everyone interested in the global meaning of African slavery, the African diaspora, and their enduring legacy.