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Author : Alejandro de la Fuente
Release : 2020-01-16
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 640/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Becoming Free, Becoming Black by : Alejandro de la Fuente
Download or read book Becoming Free, Becoming Black written by Alejandro de la Fuente. This book was released on 2020-01-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies.
Author : Alejandro de la Fuente
Release : 2020-01-16
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 395/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Becoming Free, Becoming Black by : Alejandro de la Fuente
Download or read book Becoming Free, Becoming Black written by Alejandro de la Fuente. This book was released on 2020-01-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies - Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana - Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the law of freedom - not slavery - established the meaning of blackness in law. Contests over freedom determined whether and how it was possible to move from slave to free status, and whether claims to citizenship would be tied to racial identity. Laws regulating the lives and institutions of free people of color created the boundaries between black and white, the rights reserved to white people, and the degradations imposed only on black people.
Author : Susan Eva O'Donovan
Release : 2010-04-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 607/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Becoming Free in the Cotton South by : Susan Eva O'Donovan
Download or read book Becoming Free in the Cotton South written by Susan Eva O'Donovan. This book was released on 2010-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Free in the Cotton South challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or the ending of the story, as most histories do, Susan Eva O’Donovan explores the perilous transition between these two conditions, offering a unique vision of both the enormous changes and the profound continuities in black life before and after the Civil War.This boldly argued work focuses on a small place—the southwest corner of Georgia—in order to explicate a big question: how did black men and black women’s experiences in slavery shape their lives in freedom? The reality of slavery’s demise is harsh: in this land where cotton was king, the promise of Reconstruction passed quickly, even as radicalism crested and swept the rest of the South. Ultimately, the lives former slaves made for themselves were conditioned and often constrained by what they had endured in bondage. O’Donovan’s significant scholarship does not diminish the heroic efforts of black Americans to make their world anew; rather, it offers troubling but necessary insight into the astounding challenges they faced.Becoming Free in the Cotton South is a moving and intimate narrative, drawing upon a multiplicity of sources and individual stories to provide new understanding of the forces that shaped both slavery and freedom, and of the generation of African Americans who tackled the passage that lay between.
Author : Michelle M. Wright
Release : 2004
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 886/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Becoming Black by : Michelle M. Wright
Download or read book Becoming Black written by Michelle M. Wright. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic subjects from the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany./div
Author : Judith Kelleher Schafer
Release : 2003-05-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 800/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Becoming Free, Remaining Free by : Judith Kelleher Schafer
Download or read book Becoming Free, Remaining Free written by Judith Kelleher Schafer. This book was released on 2003-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana state law was unique in allowing slaves to contract for their freedom and to initiate a lawsuit for liberty. Judith Kelleher Schafer describes the ingenious and remarkably sophisticated ways New Orleans slaves used the legal system to gain their independence and find a voice in a society that ordinarily gave them none. Showing that remaining free was often as challenging as becoming free, Schafer also recounts numerous cases in which free people of color were forced to use the courts to prove their status. She further documents seventeen free blacks who, when faced with deportation, amazingly sued to enslave themselves. Schafer’s impressive detective work achieves a rare feat in the historical profession—the unveiling of an entirely new facet of the slave experience in the American South.
