Voices of the enslaved: love, labor, and longing in French Louisiana
"In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they ans...
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| Summary: | "In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premise on which slavery was founded. Focusing on four especially dramatic court cases, Voices of the Enslaved draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to demonstrate how enslaved people viewed and experienced their worlds. Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive"-- |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 286 Seiten, 40 Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Karten, Faksimiles |
| ISBN: | 9781469654041 9781469666266 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS Acknowledgments / vii List of Illustrations / xii Abbreviations / xv Note on Translation and Transcription / xvii “Said, Without Being Asked”: An Introduction / l CHAPTER і “Only in Default of Whites”: Slave Testimony and Court Procedure / 27 chapter 2 “It’s Only from God That We Ask Forgiveness”: Louison / 48 chapter 3 “Not So Denatured as to Kill Her Child”: Marie-Jeanne and Lisette / 96 chapter 4 “Our Place”: Francisque, Démocrite, and Hector / 132 chapter 5 “Asleep in Their Bed at the Door of Their Cabin”: Kenet and Jean-Baptiste /172 EPILOGUE Toward an Intellectual Critique of Slavery? / 216 Notes / 227 Index / 275
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