Societies After Slavery: A Select Annotated Bibliography of Printed Sources on Cuba, Brazil, British Colonial Africa, South A (Pitt Latin American Series) - Hardcover

"Will become a crucial and standard source for everyone interested in the global meaning of African slavery, the African diaspora, and their enduring legacy." - David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor, Emeritus, Yale University, and Director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition "An important research tool for anyone interested in the social, economic, political, and ideological changes brought about by the emancipation of slaves in the British West Indies, Spanish and Portuguese America, and Africa. The broadly inclusive coverage of both primary and secondary sources dealing with slave owners and non-owners, slaves and free persons of color including immigrant labor, the long time frame, the descriptive annotations, and the brief, insightful introductory essays make the bibliography invaluable." - Harold Woodman, Purdue University

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.