Voices of the enslaved : love, labor, and longing in French Louisiana / Sophie White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Sophie, author.

Contributor:

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, publisher.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Louisiana--History--18th century.

Enslaved persons.

Slavery--Louisiana--History--18th century.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages)

Place of Publication:

Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2021.

Summary:

In 18th-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women & men - like the testimony of free colonists - was meticulously recorded & preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, & witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, & 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, & convents to understand how the enslaved viewed & experienced their worlds. As they testified, these individuals charted their movement between West African, indigenous, & colonial cultures; they pronounced their moral & religious values; & they registered their responses to labour, to violence, & to the intimate & familial bonds they sought to create & protect.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frederick Douglass Prize. Winner, 2020.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 3, 2020).

ISBN:

979-88-908594-2-6

979-88-908594-3-3

1-4696-6626-X

1-4696-5406-7

OCLC:

1134695206