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Becoming Free, Becoming Black - Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Becoming Free, Becoming Black - Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Studies in Legal History
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How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free,
Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color
who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves
and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders'
efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely
at three slave societies - Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana -
Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the law
of freedom - not slavery - established the meaning of blackness in
law. Contests over freedom determined whether and how it was
possible to move from slave to free status, and whether claims to
citizenship would be tied to racial identity. Laws regulating the
lives and institutions of free people of color created the
boundaries between black and white, the rights reserved to white
people, and the degradations imposed only on black people.
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