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Voices of the enslaved : love, labor, and longing in French Louisiana /
"In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they ans...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill :
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premise on which slavery was founded. Focusing on four especially dramatic court cases, Voices of the Enslaved draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to demonstrate how enslaved people viewed and experienced their worlds. Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), facsimiles (some color) |
| Premios: | Frederick Douglass Book Prize, 2020 James A. Rawley Prize, 2020 Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize, 2020 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, 2020 Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Prize, 2020 Summerlee Book Prize, 2020 Merle Curti Social History Award, 2020 Kenshur Prize, 2020 Sterling Stuckey Book Prize, 2020 |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-274) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469654058 1469654059 9781469654065 1469654067 |