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Becoming free, becoming Black : race, freedom, and law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana / Alejandro de la Fuente, Ariela J. Gross

Fuente, Alejandro de la, 1963- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Gross, Ariela, 1965- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi : Cambridge University Press, 2020

XIV, 281 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Becoming free, becoming Black / Fuente, Alejandro de la (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-108-48064-2 (Hardback)

2019018404

OCoLC: 1156260301     

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781108612951

PW 9300      Ähnliche Literatur

E29.N3

305.800973

Basisklassifikation: 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte>

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

*USA ; Schwarze ; Rechtsstellung ; Rassendiskriminierung ; Geschichte 1500-1860     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Blacks -- America -- History ; Slavery -- America -- History ; Blacks -- Legal status, laws, etc -- America -- History ; African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc -- History ; Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Cuba -- History ; Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Louisiana -- History ; Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Virginia -- History ; America -- Race relations -- History

"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, 1760s-1830 -- "Rules ... for their expulsion" : foreclosing freedom, 1830s-1860 -- "Not of the same blood" : policing racial boundaries, 1830s-1860 -- Conclusion: "Home-born citizens" : the significance of free people of color.