Societies after Slavery

A Select Annotated Bibliography of Printed Sources on Cuba, Brazil, British Colonial Africa, South Africa, and the British West

Browse Return to Previous Page       Related Subjects All Subjects History Latin American History

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

University of Pittsburgh Press

Due/Published August 2002, 512 pages, cloth

ISBN 0822941848

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, and children. Societies after Slavery provides thousands of entries and rich scholarly annotations, making it the definitive resource for scholars and students engaged in research on postemancipation societies in the Americas and Africa.