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Reconstruction in the cane fields : from slavery to free labor in Louisiana's sugar parishes, 1862-1880 / John C. Rodrigue.
Lippincott Library HD8039.S85 U67 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rodrigue, John C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sugar workers--Louisiana--History.
- Sugar workers.
- Plantation workers--Louisiana--History.
- Plantation workers.
- Slavery--Louisiana--History.
- Slavery.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Louisiana--History.
- Enslaved persons.
- Sugarcane industry--Louisiana--History.
- Sugarcane industry.
- History.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--British colonies.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--French colonies.
- Louisiana.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 224 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- 1 Louisiana Sugar
- American Slavery 9
- 2 The Sweetness of Freedom 33
- 3 Land and Labor after the War 58
- 4 Sugar and Suffrage 78
- 5 Persistence and Progress 104
- 6 "Of a Move About Disposition" 120
- 7 The Rewards of Wage Labor 139
- 8 Ambiguities of Redemption 159
- Epilogue: The Sugar War of 1887 183.
- Notes:
- Enlargement of author's thesis (doctoral)--Emory University.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-218) and index.
- ISBN:
- 080712656X
- 0807127280
- OCLC:
- 45137453
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