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Becoming Free, Becoming Black
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Alejandro de la Fuente
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies.
Becoming Free, Becoming Black
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Alejandro de la Fuente
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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 f
Becoming Free in the Cotton South
Language: en
Pages: 381
Authors: Susan Eva O'Donovan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-10 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Becoming Free in the Cotton South challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or the e
Becoming Black
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Michelle M. Wright
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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DIVA theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic subjects from the U.S., Britain, Fra
Becoming Free, Remaining Free
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Judith Kelleher Schafer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-05-01 - Publisher: LSU Press

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Louisiana state law was unique in allowing slaves to contract for their freedom and to initiate a lawsuit for liberty. Judith Kelleher Schafer describes the ing