Rebecca J. Scott's Slave Emancipation In Cub The Transition To Free Labor
In 1985 author, historian, and Professor Rebecca J. Scott released her very well received book, Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, 1860-1899. Using clear, direct prose, Scott condenses nineteenth-century Cuba's multicolored social geography, its indirect legal schemes, and the complicated social and racial tensions that determined the course of emancipation, which she explains was a process. Scott’s argument is simply that the emancipation of slavery in Cuba did not occur simply because of the power that Spain had in the region, or because of economic inconsistencies. In reality, Scott claims, slave emancipation was a prolonged, slow-going process that came to fruition through a series of social, legal and economic transformations.