Bounded Lives, Bounded Places

Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803

Автор: Kimberly S. Hanger

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Издател: Duke University Press

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During Louisiana's Spanish colonial period, economic, political, and military conditions combined wi...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Kimberly S. Hanger

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

1997

страници

264

EAN

9780822319061

ISBN

0822319063

Enbook ID

04936745

Издател

Duke University Press

Теглоt

612

Размери

229 x 152

Пълно описание

During Louisiana's Spanish colonial period, economic, political, and military conditions combined with local cultural and legal traditions to favour the growth and development of a substantial group of free blacks. In "Bounded Lives, Bounded Places", Kimberly S. Hanger explores the origin of antebellum New Orleans' large, influential, and propertied free black - or libre - population, one that was unique in the South. Hanger examines the issues libres confronted as they individually and collectively contested their ambiguous status in a complexly stratified society. Drawing on rare archives in Louisiana and Spain, Hanger reconstructs the world of late-eighteenth-century New Orleans from the perspective of its free black residents, and documents the common experiences and enterprises that helped solidify libres' sense of group identity.Over the course of three and a half decades of Spanish rule, free people of African descent in New Orleans made their greatest advances in terms of legal rights and privileges, demographic expansion, vocational responsibilities, and social standing. Although not all blacks in Spanish New Orleans yearned for expanded opportunity, Hanger shows that those who did were more likely to succeed under Spain's dominion than under the governance of France, Great Britain, or the United States. The advent of U.S. rule brought restrictions to both manumission and free black activities in New Orleans. Nonetheless, the colonial libre population became the foundation for the city's prosperous and much acclaimed Creoles of Colour during the antebellum era. For its insights into questions of slavery and social identity, "Bounded Lives, Bounded Places" will be welcomed by scholars in the fields of Latin American history, African American studies, and southern history.

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