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Beyond Slavery FrederickC ooper Thomas C. Holt RebeccaJ. Scott Beyond Slavery Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London @ 2000 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Designed by April Leidig-Higgins Set in Quadraat byTseng Informations Systems, Inc. Manufactured in the United States ofAmerica The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity ofthe Council on Library Resources. Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cooper, Frederick, 1947- Beyond slavery: explorations of race, labor, and citizenship in postemancipation societies / Frederick Cooper, Thomas C. Holt, Rebecca J. Scott. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8078-2541-7 (cloth: alk. paper) - ISBN 0-8078-4854-9 (pbk.: alk. paper) i. Freedmen. 2. Race. 3. Citizenship. 4. Slaves -Emancipation. I. Holt, Thomas C. (Thomas Cleveland), 1942- II. Scott, Rebecca J. (Rebecca Jarvis), 950- III. Title. HT731.C66 2000 326'.8'0973-dc2I 99-053083 04 03 02 01 00 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction i Thomas C. Holt The Essence of the Contract The Articulation of Race, Gender, and Political Economy in British Emancipation Policy, 1838-1866 33 RebeccaJ. Scott Fault Lins, Color Lins, and Party Lines Race, Labor, and Collective Action in Louisiana and Cuba, 1862-1912 61 Frederick Cooper Conditions Analogousto Slavery Imperialism and Free Labor Ideology in Africa 107 Afterword 151 Notes 157 Index 189 Illustrations and Maps Illustrations A formal dinner at Dawkins Caymanis Estate in Jamaica, 1838 45 "Dancing the treadmill" inJamaica, 1837 58 A view of Thibodaux, Louisiana, 1866 74 Tomis Pdrez y Pdrez 1i Filix Houphouft-Boigny addressing a crowd of supporters, 1946 138 Maps Jamaica, ca. 1895 35 The bayou parishes of Louisiana, early twentieth century 62 The province of Santa Clara (Las Villas), Cuba, early twentieth century 64 French colonial Africa 1o9
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