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The Forgotten People : Cane River's Creoles of Color /
This book revisits Cane River's "forgotten people" and incorporates new findings and insight gleaned across thirty-five years of further research. This edition provides a nuanced portrayal of the lives of Creole slaves and the roles allowed to freed people of color, tackling issues of...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2013]
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| Edition: | Rev. edition / |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | This book revisits Cane River's "forgotten people" and incorporates new findings and insight gleaned across thirty-five years of further research. This edition provides a nuanced portrayal of the lives of Creole slaves and the roles allowed to freed people of color, tackling issues of race, gender, and slave holding by former slaves. This book corrects misassumptions about the origin of key properties in the Cane River National Heritage Area and demonstrates how historians reconstruct the lives of the enslaved, the impoverished, and the disenfranchised |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (480 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780807155332 |