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.
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ISBN
9781108612593
Publisert
2021
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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