Becoming Free, Becoming Black
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ISBN-13:
9781108480642
Veröffentl:
2020
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
16.01.2020
Seiten:
296
Autor:
Alejandro De La Fuente
Gewicht:
636 g
Format:
235x157x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Becoming Free, Becoming Black offers the first comparative study of law, race, and freedom in the Americas from the sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. Slaveholders linked blackness and slavery in the law, but by the mid-nineteenth century the social meaning of blackness varied over time and under different legal regimes.
Introduction; 1. 'A Negro and by consequence an alien': local regulations and the making of race, 1500s-1700s; 2. The 'inconvenience" of black freedom: manumission, 1500s-1700s; 3. 'The natural right of all mankind': claiming freedom in the age of revolution, 1760s-1830; 4. 'Rules ... for their expulsion': foreclosing freedom, 1830s-1860; 5. 'Not of the same blood': policing racial boundaries, 1830s-1860; Conclusion: 'Home-born citizens: the significance of free people of color.
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