Bounded Lives, Bounded Places
Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803
Lieferzeit: Besorgungstitel - Lieferbar innerhalb von 10 Werktagen I
Gewicht:
680 g
Beschreibung:
"Kimberly Hanger traces the origins of antebellum Louisiana's large and influential free black society to the late eighteenth-century era of Spanish colonial rule, when the entire region, but particularly New Orleans, saw a steady growth in the number of people classified as neither slave nor white. An extraordinarily rich archival trove, especially of government, church and military records, has enabled Hanger to chronicle in remarkable detail the development of this community of "libres" and their negotiation of the precarious and ambiguous place they occupied in colonial Louisiana society. . . . Hanger fills an important lacuna in the history of free blacks in North America."--Roderick A. McDonald, "Slavery and Abolition"
During Louisiana's Spanish colonial period, economic, political, and military conditions combined with local cultural and legal traditions to favour the growth and development of a substantial group of free blacks. This title explores the origin of antebellum New Orleans' large, influential, and propertied free black - or libre - population.