ISBN:
9781469607528
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (534 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Strange History of the American Quadroon : Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World
DDC:
305.0890509763/35
Keywords:
Racially-mixed women - Louisiana - New Orleans - History - 19th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a ""quadroon,"" she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich archives of New Orleans tell a different story. Free women of color with ancestral roots in New Orleans were as likely to marry in the 1820s as white women. And marriage, not concubinage, was the basis of their family structure. In The Strange Hi
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover Page; The Strange History of the American Quadroon; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Prologue Evolution of a Color Term and an American City's Alienation; Chapter One The Philadelphia Quadroon; Chapter Two From Ménagère to Placée; Chapter Three Con Otros Muchos; Chapter Four Bachelor Patriarchs; Chapter Five Making Up the Quadroon; Chapter Six Selling the Quadroon; Epilogue Reimagining the Quadroon; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index
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