Voices of the enslaved : love, labor, and longing in French Louisiana /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: White, Sophie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Subjects:
1700-1799
Enslaved persons > Louisiana > History > 18th century.
Slavery > Louisiana > History > 18th century.
Esclaves > Louisiane > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Slavery
Enslaved persons
Louisiana
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Note on translation and transcription
  • "Said, without being asked" : an introduction
  • "Only in default of whites" : slave testimony and court procedure
  • "It's only from God that we ask forgiveness" : Louison
  • "Not so denatured as to kill her child" : Marie-Jeanne and Lisette
  • "Our place" : Francisque, Démocrite, and Hector
  • "Asleep in their bed at the door of their cabin" : Kenet and Jean-Baptiste
  • Epilogue : Toward an intellectual critique of slavery?

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