This study examines emancipation and the difficult transition from slavery to free labour in one region of the South - the cane sugar area of southern Louisiana. The author demonstrates that the special geographical and environmental requirements of sugar production shaped new labour arrangements.
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"This is a major monograph, one that tells an important story with precision and panache." - Rebecca J. Scott, author of Slave Emancipation in Cuba"
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8071-2656-1 (9780807126561)
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John C. Rodrigue is assistant professor of history at Louisiana State University. He is coeditor of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, Series 3, Volume I, Land, Labor, and Capital 1865.
