Rebecca J. Scott is Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.

Scott has given us an epochal work that is the mostimportant comparative analysis of race relations in the Americas sinceCarl Degler'sNeither Black Nor White. What makes the book so important is its truly unusual method, and the great skill and brio with which that method is carried out. It is a triumph of historical investigation.

• Introduction 1. Two Worlds of Cane, 1803-1860 2. Building Citizenship: Louisiana, 1862-1873 3. Crisis and Voice: Southern Louisiana, 1874-1896 4. Finding the Spaces of Freedom: Central Cuba, 1868-1895 5. A Wartime Cross-Racial Alliance: Cuba, 1895-1898 6. Democracy and Antidemocracy: The Claims of Citizens, 1898-1900 7. The Right to Have Rights, 1901-1905 8. The Search for Property and Standing: Cuba, 1906-1914 9. Diverging Paths and Degrees of Freedom Appendix: Tables Abbreviations Notes Select Bibliography of Primary Sources Illustration and Map Credits Acknowledgments Index

Rebecca J. Scott is Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.

Scott has given us an epochal work that is the mostimportant comparative analysis of race relations in the Americas sinceCarl Degler'sNeither Black Nor White. What makes the book so important is its truly unusual method, and the great skill and brio with which that method is carried out. It is a triumph of historical investigation.

• Introduction 1. Two Worlds of Cane, 1803-1860 2. Building Citizenship: Louisiana, 1862-1873 3. Crisis and Voice: Southern Louisiana, 1874-1896 4. Finding the Spaces of Freedom: Central Cuba, 1868-1895 5. A Wartime Cross-Racial Alliance: Cuba, 1895-1898 6. Democracy and Antidemocracy: The Claims of Citizens, 1898-1900 7. The Right to Have Rights, 1901-1905 8. The Search for Property and Standing: Cuba, 1906-1914 9. Diverging Paths and Degrees of Freedom Appendix: Tables Abbreviations Notes Select Bibliography of Primary Sources Illustration and Map Credits Acknowledgments Index

Rebecca J. Scott is Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.

Scott has given us an epochal work that is the mostimportant comparative analysis of race relations in the Americas sinceCarl Degler'sNeither Black Nor White. What makes the book so important is its truly unusual method, and the great skill and brio with which that method is carried out. It is a triumph of historical investigation.

• Introduction 1. Two Worlds of Cane, 1803-1860 2. Building Citizenship: Louisiana, 1862-1873 3. Crisis and Voice: Southern Louisiana, 1874-1896 4. Finding the Spaces of Freedom: Central Cuba, 1868-1895 5. A Wartime Cross-Racial Alliance: Cuba, 1895-1898 6. Democracy and Antidemocracy: The Claims of Citizens, 1898-1900 7. The Right to Have Rights, 1901-1905 8. The Search for Property and Standing: Cuba, 1906-1914 9. Diverging Paths and Degrees of Freedom Appendix: Tables Abbreviations Notes Select Bibliography of Primary Sources Illustration and Map Credits Acknowledgments Index