Societies After Slavery

by Holt, Thomas C.; Cooper, Frederick; McGuinness, Aims; Scott, Rebecca J.

• ISBN13: 9780822941842
• ISBN10: 0822941848
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-28
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Summary

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 Slaveryprovides 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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
British West Indies
Introduction	3	(2)
Bibliographies, Historiographical Essays, and Indexes	5	(11)
Primary Sources	16	(8)
British Parliamentary Papers	24	(47)
Secondary Sources	71	(60)
British Colonial Africa
Introduction	131	(6)
Bibliographies, Historiographical Essays, and Indexes	137	(1)
Primary Sources	138	(24)
British Parliamentary Papers	162	(18)
Secondary Sources	180	(23)
South Africa
Introduction	203	(4)
Bibliographies, Historiographical Essays, and Indexes	207	(1)
Primary Sources	208	(13)
Secondary Sources	221	(16)
Cuba
Introduction	237	(5)
Bibliographies, Historiographical Essays, and Indexes	242	(7)
Primary Sources	249	(36)
U.S.-Supervised Censuses and U.S. Governmental Records	285	(5)
Secondary Sources	290	(33)
Brazil
Introduction	323	(4)
Bibliographies, Historiographical Essays, and Indexes	327	(8)
Primary Sources	335	(20)
Censuses and Related Compilations	355	(7)
Secondary Sources	362