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The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Emily ClarkPublish date:2015-02-01Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469622064ISBN-10:1469622068UPC:9781469622064Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Women, African American & Black, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.30 x 6.21 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.9612Product ID:SCN1K6B1SE
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 History of the American Quadroon, Clark investigates how the narrative of the erotic colored mistress became an elaborate literary and commercial trope, persisting as a symbol that long outlived the political and cultural purposes for which it had been created. Untangling myth and memory, she presents a dramatically new and nuanced understanding of the myths and realities of New Orleans's free women of color.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469622064ISBN-10:1469622068UPC:9781469622064Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Women, African American & Black, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.30 x 6.21 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.9612Product ID:SCN1K6B1SE
Clark, Emily: - Emily Clark is Clement Chambers Benenson Professor of American Colonial History and associate professor of history at Tulane University. She is author of Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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