Caribbean New Orleans : Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society /

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Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced to toil for them. Casting early New Orleans as a Caribbean o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Vidal, Cecile (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Slavery.
Race relations.
French colonies.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Slavery > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Slavery > West Indies, French > History.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
Lesser Antilles > West Indies, French.
America.
New Orleans (La.) > History > Social conditions.
France > Colonies > America > History.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations > History.
New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: When the Levees Rose
  • A Port City of the French Empire and the Greater Caribbean
  • The City with Imaginary Walls: The Natchez Wars, Slave Unrest, and the Construction of a White Urban Community
  • The Hustle and Bustle of City Life: The Politics of Public Space and Racial Formation
  • "The Mulatto of the House": The Racial Line within Domestic Households and Residential Institutions
  • "A Scandalous Commerce": The Disorder of Families
  • "American Politics": Slavery, Labor, and Race
  • "Everybody Wants to Be a Merchant": Trade, Credit, and Honor
  • Lash of the Tongue, Lash of the Whip: The Formation and Transformation of Racial Categories and Practices
  • From "Louisians" to "Louisianais": The Emergence of a Sense of Place and the Racial Divide
  • Conclusion. From Louisiana to Saint-Domingue and from Saint-Domingue to Louisiana.

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