Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas (Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714647101 ISBN 13: 9780714647104

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

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

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Edited by Landers, Jane G.

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In the circum-Caribbean, nuclear and extended families played an important role in moving people out of slavery and in protecting them from legal and social discrimination. Some of the families studied in this volume were virtual representations of the colonial social order, including the free, the enslaved, white and black. The economic status of family members ranged from slaves without property to planter elites. While miscegenation facilitated manumission for a few, particular for women of colour in Louisiana and Saint-Domingue, more important was the support of other black and coloured family members. This volume examines free black communities in Senegal, South Carolina, Louisiana, Florida, Cuba, Saint-Domingue, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Suriname to compare the genesis of a free black class within Senegalese, British, French, Spanish and Dutch slave systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714647101
• ISBN 13: 9780714647104
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172
• Editor: Landers Jane G.