Intimate Bonds : Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic / Jennifer L. Palmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palmer, Jennifer L., Author.

Series:

Early modern Americas.

The Early Modern Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--France.

Slavery.

Gender--France.

Gender.

France--History.

France.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period. As race-based slavery became entrenched in French laws, all household members in the French Atlantic world --regardless of their status, gender, or race--negotiated increasingly stratified legal understandings of race and gender. Through her focus on household relationships, Jennifer L. Palmer reveals how intimacy not only led to the seemingly immutable hierarchies of the plantation system but also caused these hierarchies to collapse even before the age of Atlantic revolutions. Placing families at the center of the French Atlantic world, Palmer uses the concept of intimacy to illustrate how race, gender, and the law intersected to form a new worldview. Through analysis of personal, mercantile, and legal relationships, Intimate Bonds demonstrates that even in an era of intensifying racial stratification, slave owners and slaves, whites and people of color, men and women all adapted creatively to growing barriers, thus challenging the emerging paradigm of the nuclear family. This engagingly written history reveals that personal choices and family strategies shaped larger cultural and legal shifts in the meanings of race, slavery, family, patriarchy, and colonialism itself.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Abbrevations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Proximity and Distance in Plantation Society

Chapter 2. Legitimating Authority

Chapter 3. Navigating Transatlantic Separations

Chapter 4. Economies of Race and Gender

Chapter 5. What's in a Name?

Chapter 6. Negotiating Patriarchy

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780812293067

0812293061

OCLC:

955138840