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Generations of Freedom - Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865 (Paperback)
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Generations of Freedom - Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865 (Paperback)
Series: Early American Places Series
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In Generations of Freedom Nik Ribianszky employs the lenses of
gender and violence to examine family, community, and the tenacious
struggles by which free blacks claimed and maintained their freedom
under shifting international governance from Spanish colonial rule
(1779-95), through American acquisition (1795) and eventual
statehood (established in 1817), and finally to slavery's legal
demise in 1865. Freedom was not necessarily a permanent condition,
but one separated from racial slavery by a permeable and highly
unstable boundary. This book explicates how the interlocking
categories of race, class, and gender shaped Natchez, Mississippi's
free community of color and how implicit and explicit violence
carried down from one generation to another. To demonstrate this,
Ribianszky introduces the concept of generational freedom. Inspired
by the work of Ira Berlin, who focused on the complex process
through which free Africans and their descendants came to
experience enslavement, generational freedom is an analytical tool
that employs this same idea in reverse to trace how various
generations of free people of color embraced, navigated, and
protected their tenuous freedom. This approach allows for the
identification of a foundational generation of free people of
color, those who were born into slavery but later freed. The
generations that followed, the conditional generations, were those
who were born free and without the experience of and socialization
into North America's system of chattel, racial slavery.
Notwithstanding one's status at birth as legally free or unfree,
though, each individual's continued freedom was based on compliance
with a demanding and often unfair system. Generations of Freedom
tells the stories of people who collectively inhabited an uncertain
world of qualified freedom. Taken together-by exploring the themes
of movement, gendered violence, and threats to their property and,
indeed, their very bodies-these accounts argue that free blacks
were active in shaping their own freedom and that of generations
thereafter. Their successful navigation of the shifting ground of
freedom was dependent on their utilization of all available tools
at their disposal: securing reliable and influential allies,
maintaining their independence, and using the legal system to
protect their property-including that most precious, themselves.
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