Auteur: Rebecca J. Scott

In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography–the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition mea …

With the recent election of the nations first African American presidentan individual of blended Kenyan and American heritage who spent his formative years in Hawaii and Indonesiathe topic of transna …

En 1899, después de varias décadas de lucha, había concluido la guerra por la independencia de Cuba del dominio español. La situación, sin embargo, no era la que habían anticipado los patriotas cuban …

In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography–the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition mea …

As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Degrees of Freedom compares and contrasts these two societ …

<i>Slave Emancipation in Cuba</i> is the classic study of the end of slavery in Cuba. Rebecca J. Scott explores the dynamics of Cuban emancipation, arguing that slavery was not simply abo …

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, …

<i>The Archives of Cuba/Los archivos de Cuba</i> is the first comprehensive guide to the archival holdings and manuscript collections located throughout the fourteen provinces of Cuba, an …

Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the be …

As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Degrees of Freedom compares and contrasts these two societ …