Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Very prejudicial" : free people of color in a slave society
  • Spectacles of power : repressing the conspiracy of La Escalera
  • Calculated expulsions : free people of color in Mexico, the U.S., Spain, and North Africa
  • Acts of excess and insubordination : resisting the tranquility of terror
  • The rise and fall of the militia of color : from the constitution of 1812 to the Escalera era
  • Balancing acts : the shifting dynamics of race and immigration.