Beyond Slavery
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Beyond Slavery

Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies

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Beyond Slavery

Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies

About this book

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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Index

Abolition. See Emancipation
Abolition Act of 1833 (Great Britain), 34, 57–58
Abolitionism. See Antislavery movement
Africa: emancipation in, 3, 157 (n. 2); labor in, 4, 116, 129, 141; and economics in, 30, 116–17; during World War II, 31, 136; labor movements in, 110–11, 147, 187 (n. 101); state power in, 113; slavery in, 113–16, 117; squatters in, 122–23; “traditional,” 125–26; matrilineal descent in, 126–27. See also Freedpeople: in Africa; French Africa; Slavery, African; Societies, African
Africans: arguments about peculiarity of, 21, 27–32, 57, 110, 112, 125, 129, 130, 136, 139, 141; as slavers, 27; stereotypes of male, 115, 180 (n. 12); in Paris legislature, 129, 143, 145, 186 (n. 79); in labor market, 132. See also Freedpeople: in Africa
Afro-Cubans, 23–25; in nationalist movement, 84, 85, 87–90; repression of, 84, 101–2; 173 (n. 83); on plantations, 85, 88, 101; insurgent leaders among, 88; in Liberal Party, 99; and voting, 91, 94, 105. See also Freedpeople: in Cuba
Age of Revolution, 38
Agriculture: subsistence and other small-scale, 47–49, 65; innovations in, 51 (see also Land, access to; Plantations); in Louisiana, 65, 66, 68, 77; in Cuba, 85, 92, 93; in Africa, 119, 126
Algerian War, 147, 187 (n. 101)
Anarchists, 95
Anderson, Lewis, 74–75
Anti-apartheid movement, 149, 152
Anticolonialism, 107, 149; Cuban, 84, 85, 87–90
Antislavery movement, 8, 12, 37, 107, 117, 149, 158 (n. 8), 161 (n. 33); in Great Britain, 7–8, 108, 114, 116; international conventions of, 116
Apprenticeship, 20–22, 30, 34, 47, 57, 160 (n. 29); end of, 43, 44–45; in Cuba, 86; denunciation of,...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations and Maps
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. The Essence of the Contract: The Articulation of Race, Gender, and Political Economy in British Emancipation Policy, 1838–1866
  9. Fault Lines, Color Lines, and Party Lines: Race, Labor, and Collective Action in Louisiana and Cuba, 1862–1912
  10. Conditions Analogous to Slavery: Imperialism and Free Labor Ideology in Africa
  11. Afterword
  12. Notes
  13. Index