| Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas Contributor(s): Landers, Jane G. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0714642541 ISBN-13: 9780714642543 Publisher: Taylor & Francis OUR PRICE: $74.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1996 Annotation: Once freedom was achieved, persons of African descent developed a wide range of responses to new social, political and economic challenges. Free blacks used their respective legal systems to advance claims to land, pay, inheritance and, in the larger sense, citizenship. Knowing that their positions might change as rapidly as a government they became highly politicized, and many of the essays in this volume explore their political choices and the rationales for them. br br This collection examines free black communities in Senegal, South Carolina, Louisiana, Florida, Cuba, Saint-Dominique, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Suriname to compare the genesis of a free black class within Senegalese, British, French, Spanish and Dutch slave systems. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 975.004 |
| LCCN: 96014522 |
| Series: Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.1" W x 9.02" (0.61 lbs) 158 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean. Topics include color, class, and identity on the eve of the Haitian revolution; where free persons of color stood in the hierarchy of wealth in antebellum |
