Societies After Slavery

Societies after Slavery is the definitive resource for scholars and students engaged in research on postemancipation societies in the Americas and Africa. The primary and secondary sources listed herein can be readily found in major research libraries or accessed from any university or public library participating in a research consortium. With hundreds of entries and rich scholarly annotations, this bibliography covers a span of emancipations from the British West Indies in the 1830s to Sierra Leone in 1927. Book jacket.

Rebecca J. Scott is the Frederick Huetwell Professor of History and visiting professor of law at the University of Michigan Thomas C. Holt is the James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago Frederick Cooper is professor of history at New York University Aims McGuinness is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee