Societies After Slavery

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

• ISBN13: 9780822958482
• ISBN10: 0822958481
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-23
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Summary

Societies after Slavery is the definitive resource for scholars and students engaged in research on postemancipation societies in the Americas and Africa. The primary and secondary sources listed herein can be readily found in major research libraries or accessed from any university or public library participating in a research consortium. With hundreds of entries and rich scholarly annotations, this bibliography covers a span of emancipations from the British West Indies in the 1830s to Sierra Leone in 1927. Book jacket.

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
I. 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)
II. 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)
III. SOUTH AFRICA
Introduction	203	(4)
Bibliographies, Historiographical Essays, and Indexes	207	(1)
Primary Sources	208	(13)
Secondary Sources	221	(16)
IV. 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)
V. BRAZIL
Introduction	323	(4)
Bibliographies, Historiographical Essays, and Indexes	327	(8)
Primary Sources	335	(20)
Censuses and Related Compilations	355	(7)
Secondary Sources	362