The strange history of the American quadroon : free women of color in the revolutionary Atlantic world / Emily Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Emily, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiracial women--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--19th century.

Multiracial women.

Sex symbolism.

New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions--19th century.

New Orleans (La.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Contents; 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: Marriage; CHAPTER FOUR: Bachelor Patriarchs: Life Partnerships across the Color Line; CHAPTER FIVE: Making Up the Quadroon; CHAPTER SIX: Selling the Quadroon; EPILOUGE: Reimagining the Quadroon; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-456-8

979-88-908861-7-0

1-4696-0805-7

1-4696-0753-0

OCLC:

843191937