Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author White, Sophie, author.

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

Publication Info. Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

Item Status

Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Enslaved persons -- Louisiana -- History -- 18th century.
Enslaved persons.
Louisiana.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Slavery -- Louisiana -- History -- 18th century.
Slavery.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: White, Sophie. Voices of the enslaved. Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] 9781469654041 (DLC) 2019032062 (OCoLC)1091845044
ISBN 9781469654065 (electronic book)
1469654067 (electronic book)
9781469654058 (electronic book)
1469654059 (electronic book)
9781469654041
1469654040