Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, 1860-1899
- ISBN-10
- 0691076677
- ISBN-13
- 9780691076676
- Category
- Plantation life
- Pages
- 319
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Authors
- Rebecca Jarvis Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law Rebecca J Scott
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