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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Raising cane: From slavery to free labor in Louisiana's sugar parishes, 1862-1880 Abstract: This dissertation examines the transition from slavery to free labor in the cane sugar region of southeastern Louisiana during the Civil War, Reconstruction, and early post-Reconstruction period. It argues that the particular demands of traditional sugar production in Louisiana gave freedpeople considerable leverage in their struggle with planters over the new labor system. In contrast to sharecropping and tenancy, which replaced slavery in the cotton South, wage labor and centralized plantation routine supplanted slavery in the postbellum sugar region. Consequently, wages and the method of payment became the principal points of conflict between sugar planters and freedpeople. Clashes also arose, however, over such matters as the conditions of labor, access to plantation resources, and free rations and housing, all of which freedpeople deemed important supplements to wages. Capitalizing on the demands of the crop and on the centralized organization of plantation routine, freedpeople gained advantageous terms on wages and on ancillary matters. Their very successes, in turn, impelled freedpeople to tolerate work routines under free labor that bore strong resemblance to those of the slave regime. |
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