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Voices of the enslaved : love, labor, and longing in French Louisiana / Sophie White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Sophie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--Louisiana--History--18th century.
- Enslaved persons.
- Slavery--Louisiana--History--18th century.
- Slavery.
- Slaves--Louisiana--History--18th century.
- History.
- Louisiana.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 286 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), facsimiles (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premise on which slavery was founded. Focusing on four especially dramatic court cases, Voices of the Enslaved draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to demonstrate how enslaved people viewed and experienced their worlds. Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 "Only in Default of Whites": Slave Testimony and Court Procedure
- ch. 2 "It's Only from God That We Ask Forgiveness": Louison
- ch. 3 "Not So Denatured as to Kill Her Child": Marie-Jeanne and Lisette
- ch. 4 "Our Place": Francisque, Democrite, and Hector
- ch. 5 "Asleep in Their Bed at the Door of Their Cabin": Kenet and Jean-Baptiste.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Frederick Douglass Book Prize, 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781469654041
- 1469654040
- 9781469666266
- 146966626X
- OCLC:
- 1243305460
- Publisher Number:
- 99989152522
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