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Becoming free, becoming Black : race, freedom, and law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana / Alejandro de la Fuente, Ariela J. Gross.
Author
Fuente, Alejandro de la, 1963-
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Description
xiv, 281 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
E29.N3 F84 2020
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Subject(s)
Black people
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America
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History
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Slavery
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America
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History
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Black people
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Legal status, laws, etc
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America
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History
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African Americans
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Legal status, laws, etc
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History
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Free African Americans
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Legal status, laws, etc
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History
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Free Black people
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Legal status, laws, etc
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America
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History
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Free African Americans
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Race identity
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History
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Slavery
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Law and legislation
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Cuba
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History
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Slavery
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Law and legislation
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Louisiana
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History
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Slavery
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Law and legislation
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Virginia
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History
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Enslaved persons
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America
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Race relations
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History
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Author
Gross, Ariela J., 1965-
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Series
Studies in legal history
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Summary note
"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" -- Publisher's description.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"A Negro and by consequence an alien" : local regulations and the making of race, 1500s-1700s
The "inconvenience" of Black freedom : manumission, 1500s-1700s
"The natural right of all mankind" : claiming freedom in the Age of Revolution, 1760-1830
"Rules ... for their expulsion" : foreclosing freedom, 1830-1860
"Not of the same blood" : policing racial boundaries, 1830-1860
Conclusion: "Home-born citizens" : the significance of free people of color.
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ISBN
9781108480642
1108480640
LCCN
2019018404
OCLC
1104859661
Other standard number
40029761965
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