Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alejandro de la Fuente, Ariela J. GrossSeries:Studies in Legal HistoryPublish date:1/16/2020Pages:294
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108480642ISBN-10:1108480640UPC:9781108480642Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.40 x 6.60 x 0.86 inchesWeight:0.563Product ID:SC1S07924K
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies - Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana - Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the law of freedom - not slavery - established the meaning of blackness in law. Contests over freedom determined whether and how it was possible to move from slave to free status, and whether claims to citizenship would be tied to racial identity. Laws regulating the lives and institutions of free people of color created the boundaries between black and white, the rights reserved to white people, and the degradations imposed only on black people.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108480642ISBN-10:1108480640UPC:9781108480642Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.40 x 6.60 x 0.86 inchesWeight:0.563Product ID:SC1S07924K
Gross, Ariela J.: - Ariela J. Gross is the John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History and the Co-Director of the Center for Law, History, and Culture at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She is the author of What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America (2008) and Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom (2000).de la Fuente, Alejandro: - Alejandro de la Fuente is the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies, and the Director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University, Massachusetts. He is the author of Diago: The Pasts of this Afro-Cuban Present (2018), Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (2008), and A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba (2001).
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