Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 282 pages)
ISBN:
9781108612951
,
9781108612593
Series Statement:
Studies in legal history
Content:
"A Negro and by consequence an alien" : local regulations and the making of race, 1500s-1700s -- The "inconvenience" of Black freedom : manumission, 1500s-1700s -- "The natural right of all mankind" : claiming freedom in the Age of Revolution, 1760-1830 -- "Rules ... for their expulsion" : foreclosing freedom, 1830-1860 -- "Not of the same blood" : policing racial boundaries, 1830-1860 -- Conclusion: "Home-born citizens" : the significance of free people of color.
Content:
Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108480642
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fuente, Alejandro de la, 1963 - Becoming free, becoming Black Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ISBN 9781108480642
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
Keywords:
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Rechtsstellung
;
Rassendiskriminierung
;
Geschichte 1500-1860
;
Kuba
;
Louisiana
;
Virginia
;
Sklaverei
;
Person of Color
;
Rechtsstellung
;
Freiheit
;
Geschichte 1700-1900
DOI:
10.1017/9781108612951
URL:
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