Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, 1860-1899 Book

Back in Print! Slave Emancipation in Cuba is the classic study of the end of slavery in Cuba. Rebecca J. Scotof economic contradictions. Rather, slave emancipation was a prolonged, gradual and conflictive process unfolding through a series of social, legal, and economic transformations. Scott demonstrates that slaves themselves helped to accelerate the elimination of slavery. Through flight, participation in nationalist insurgency, legal action, and self-purchase, slof the nineteenth-century, some chose to join a new and ultimately successful rebellion against Spanish power. In a new afterword, prepared for this edition, the author reflects on the complexities of postemancipation society, and on recent developments in historical methodology that make it possible to address these ques of Freedom in the Arimao and Caunao Valleys, Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1880-1899 forthcoming in the journal, Past and Present, and Stubborn and Disposed to Stand their Ground: Black Militia, Sugar Workers, and the Dynamics of Collective Action in the Louisiana Sugar Bowl, 1863-87, which appeared in Slavery and Abolition 20. She is co-author, with Frederick Cooper and Thomas Holt, of Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies.Read More