The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery
(Part of the Pitt Latin American Studies Series)
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In this interdisciplinary study, scholars consider the aftermath of slavery, focusing on Caribbean societies and the southern United States. What was the nature and impact of slave emancipation? Did the change in legal status conceal underlying continuities in American plantation societies? Was there a common postemancipation pattern of economic development? How did emancipation affect the politics and culture of race and class? These and other questions...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:082293695X
ISBN13:9780822936954
Release Date:January 1992
Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
Length:333 Pages
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