Becoming Free, Becoming Black offers the first comparative study of law, race, and freedom in the Americas from the sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. Slaveholders linked blackness and slavery in the law, but by the mid-nineteenth century the social meaning of blackness varied over time and under different legal regimes.
Becoming Free, Becoming Black offers the first comparative study of law, race, and freedom in the Americas from the sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. Slaveholders linked blackness and slavery in the law, but by the mid-nineteenth century the social meaning of blackness varied over time and under different legal regimes.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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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Introduction 1. 'A Negro and by consequence an alien': local regulations and the making of race, 1500s-1700s 2. The 'inconvenience" of black freedom: manumission, 1500s-1700s 3. 'The natural right of all mankind': claiming freedom in the age of revolution, 1760s-1830 4. 'Rules ... for their expulsion': foreclosing freedom, 1830s-1860 5. 'Not of the same blood': policing racial boundaries, 1830s-1860 Conclusion: 'Home-born citizens: the significance of free people of color.
Introduction 1. 'A Negro and by consequence an alien': local regulations and the making of race, 1500s-1700s 2. The 'inconvenience" of black freedom: manumission, 1500s-1700s 3. 'The natural right of all mankind': claiming freedom in the age of revolution, 1760s-1830 4. 'Rules ... for their expulsion': foreclosing freedom, 1830s-1860 5. 'Not of the same blood': policing racial boundaries, 1830s-1860 Conclusion: 'Home-born citizens: the significance of free people of color.
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